Monthly Archives: November 2009
Message to Donors
Dear Friend:
We recently released our fall newsletter The Voice for Choice*, highlighting our commitment to school choice and heart for Arizona families. The opposition continues to mount a massive media offensive in an effort to derail educational choice through false characterizations of the tax credit law and the many organizations that diligently strive to work within it. However, no changes have been made to the law. We still have the right and opportunity to vote with our resources by making a dollar-for-dollar tax credit donation in support of Arizona students.
K-12 Education Tax Credits Save Millions
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson
The latest fiscal impact review of Arizona’s scholarship tax credit programs estimates that they saved between $44 million and $186 million last year. The programs offer individuals and businesses dollar-for-dollar tax credits if they make donations to non-profit K-12 scholarship-granting organizations. Those organizations, in turn, provide private school tuition assistance.
This is much higher than the savings estimate offered by the Arizona Republic last month, as the AZ Republic story linked above is quick to point out. I deal with the reasons for the discrepancy below, but first, here’s the crucial fact…
Tuition Tax Credit Saves At Least Twice What It Costs State
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE DAILY – NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Read the online version of this Daily Email here.
Tuition Tax Credit Saves At Least Twice What It Costs State
by Matthew Ladner, Ph.D.
Baylor University economist Dr. Charles North developed an estimate of the savings to state taxpayers due to the individual tax credit, and shared his findings with the Arizona Legislature last week. You can find Dr. North’s analysis here and view his testimony to the Ad Hoc Committee on…
Listen to 2nd Meeting of the Private School Tax Credit Review Committee
As a follow up to a recent blog post, a recording of the 2nd Private School Tax Credit Review Committee Meeting that was held on November 16, 2009 can be found here.
Private School Tax Credit Review Committee Holds Second Meeting
WHAT: The second meeting of the Private School Tuition Tax Credit Review Committee formed by Speaker Kirk Adams (R-Dist. 19) in October is scheduled to meet today to review information provided from individual STO organizations regarding the application, administration and approval processes for the tax credits…
Fall 2009 Newsletter
APESF has released a fall newsletter for 2009! Stay up-to-date on what’s happening with APESF and the Private School Tax Credit Program…
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APESF Response to Review Committee
On October 15, the Private School Tax Credit Review Committee from the AZ House of Representatives sent a letter to all Arizona STO’s requesting information regarding their programs. The following is a copy of our response to that letter…