Please send comments to the IRS regarding your situation. You will only have 5,000 characters to use, so you must be brief. I have included talking points for you to use which are almost 900 characters.
You definitely won’t have room to explain everything that you’d love to explain, just keep it brief and to the point so that they hear from SC parents! We do like the adjustments they made this week and are hopeful that those changes will serve to “fix” the problems they created. Therefore, we don’t want to “blast” them but we do want them to hear from us! Go to this link where you can click on the “Comment now” tab on the right of the box. Identify yourself as a parent or teacher of a child who receives the Exceptional SC scholarship and how long your child has been in the program along with a VERY BRIEF description of your child’s challenges. Add these points- feel free to put into your words or summarize: Changes to the tax law that were intended to reign in states that wanted to bypass tax reform have greatly impacted SC’s program. This program was already doing what tax reform intended and that was re-directing tax dollars into a program for exceptional needs children that public schools could not accommodate. Our program is only $12 million and DOESN’T use tax money and is not guaranteed, so our program has to raise the money each year. The confusion created by the ruling has frozen financial advisors and accountants who have advised their clients that they should not give to our program any longer. Your ruling in December on business deductions was very helpful and we appreciate you clarifying that and earnestly desire that you finalize that ruling quickly so that pass through entity businesses CAN take the federal deduction for donations to our program.
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