Make the federal 45F childcare tax credit refundable for businesses that build and operate discounted childcare for employees.

Adam B. Schiff · California · Democratic

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We should encourage businesses to use the non-refundable tax credits already available to them—like the 45F tax credit—by making it refundable if businesses build and operate discounted childcare for employees.

Schiff proposes making childcare-related business tax credits refundable for employers that provide discounted employee childcare.

Affordability Agenda - Adam Schiff for Senate
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Incentivize Businesses To Provide Discounted Childcare For Employees

Schiff commits to making the 45F childcare tax credit refundable for employers that provide discounted childcare.

Affordability Agenda - Adam Schiff for Senate
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Evidence

The campaign affordability agenda says businesses should be encouraged to use the existing 45F child care tax credit by making it refundable if they build and operate discounted child care for employees.

This is the campaign promise at issue: Schiff explicitly proposed making 45F refundable for employers that provide discounted child care.

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IRS guidance states the employer-provided child care credit is a business credit under section 45F, not a refundable credit, and describes it as a credit that reduces tax liability.

As of the latest IRS guidance, 45F remains nonrefundable, so the specific promise to make it refundable has not been delivered.

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Child and Dependent Care Credit information | IRS
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The promised outcome was specifically to make IRC section 45F refundable for businesses that build and operate discounted employee childcare. Current federal treatment still describes 45F as nonrefundable: it can reduce business tax liability, with unused amounts generally carried back or forward rather than paid as a refund. Although later federal legislation changed some 45F parameters for 2026, including higher caps/rates and expanded eligible expenses, the evidence does not show that Schiff enacted or materially advanced refundability, nor that refundability became law. The promise therefore has not been delivered.

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