Word: tuition
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...monthly payment. He'd love to invest more in the stock market. But his eldest child starts college in three years. Every spare dime goes into a short-term bond fund, where it is certain to hold its value and be available when the tuition bill arrives. It's all Manager can do to fully fund his 401(k) plan, which is in stocks. But that is a tax-deferred account. So the lower gains-tax rate is no help...
...budget package includes a revised version of the President's Hope Scholarship program, a large plank of his 1996 re-election platform. That program provides dollar-for-dollar tax credit to first-and second-year college students for the first $1,000 spent on tuition, fees and books. In addition, the scholarship includes a credit for 50 percent of the next $1,000 spent on college...
Nixon also said the University wants to see an increase in Pell Grants, a program that benefits lower-income students and families who will for the most part not benefit from the new tuition tax credits...
...course, exactly which of the myriad details in the bill will become law. As a starting point for their negotiations with President Clinton, Senate and House Republicans last week agreed on a unified position on the central provisions: a $500-per-child tax credit, another tax credit for college tuition, and a cut in the capital-gains tax. The White House has ideas of its own in those areas, so some change is likely in all three. All of it will add more pieces to the tax puzzle...
...code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there's the law of unintended consequences. Much of the benefit of tax credits...