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How Would the Child Credit Be Calculated

for 2023 Under H.R. 7024?



January   23, 2024

H.R. 7024, ordered to be reported by the House Ways and Means committee on January 19, includes
several provisions that would expand the child tax credit for low-income families by increasing the
refundable portion of the credit. The refundable portion of the child credit is sometimes called the
additional child tax credit or ACTC.
These changes include the following:
    1. The ACTC  would be calculated per child: After the ACTC amount is calculated under
       current law (15% of earned income above $2,500), it would then be multiplied by the
       number of children, effectively phasing in the credit faster for families with more
       children (i.e., a 30% phase-in rate for two children), capped by the maximum ACTC (see
       below).
    2. The maximum   amount of the ACTC would increase: The ACTC maximum would rise
       from $1,600 to $1,800 per child in 2023 and from $1,700 to $1,900 per child in 2024 and
       equal $2,000 (adjusted for inflation) in 2025.
    3. Taxpayers could use prior-year earned income to calculate the ACTC: Taxpayers
       could calculate the ACTC using their prior-year earned income if their current-year
       earned income was less than their prior-year earned income. This would apply for 2024
       and 2025. Hence, in 2024, a taxpayer could elect to use their earned income for 2023 to
       calculate their ACTC if that amount was more than their 2024 earned income (under
       current law, they could only use their 2024 earned income for this calculation).











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