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Renames and restructures section 530 to replace references to 'Coverdell education savings account(s)' with 'Coverdell lifelong learning account(s)'; expands the definition of eligible expenses to include defined qualified educational or skill development expenses (including certain WIOA training/career/youth activities, Perkins career and technical education activities, and Adult Education and Family Literacy Act activities, plus related transportation, testing, and specified technology expenses); modifies age- and contribution-related provisions (adds $10,000 account-balance limit rule for beneficiaries over age 30, increases the age-after-which contributions generally cannot be made from 18 to 70, and other related text changes); and makes conforming and related textual edits described in the section.
Adds a new section (45BB) creating the 'employee educational skills and development contribution' credit: a tax credit equal to 25 percent of nonelective employer contributions made to a Coverdell lifelong learning account for which the designated beneficiary is an employee of the taxpayer. The new section includes definitions (employee exclusions and inclusion of leased employees), a definition of 'nonelective contribution', and aggregation and other rules applying certain rules similar to section 52.
This bill would change the tax code to encourage employers to help pay for their workers’ learning and job training. Employers could get a 25% tax credit for money they put into a “Coverdell lifelong learning account” for an employee. The money has to be extra from the employer, not taken from the worker’s paycheck.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced January 15, 2025 by Glenn Thompson · Last progress January 15, 2025