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Louisiana offers tax credits for donors who support early childhood education, but few know about it

Source: theadvocate.com - Nov 12, 2015

Over the past few weeks, donors have pledged $35,000 to help support an agency that provides training and support to people who work with Lafayette Parish preschoolers.

The donors are in line for up to $5,000 in Louisiana tax credits each as an incentive that supports child care resource and referral agencies across the state.

But ask Daniel Noel how many donors have taken advantage of the tax credit over the past few years, and the marketing development official for a Lafayette Parish preschool education agency will tell you: zero.

“People don’t know about it,” Noel said of the tax credit. “That’s why I’m here. I spoke to a room full of CPAs recently and only one had heard about it.”

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