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Q: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ''Working Family
Child Care Tax Relief Act of 1996''.
(b) Amendment of 1986 Code.--Except as otherwise expressly
provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in
terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision,
the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other
provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF CHILD AND DEPENDENT CARE CREDIT.

(a) Increase in Credit.--Paragraph (2) of section 21(a) (relating
to credit for expenses for household and dependent care services
necessary for gainful employment) is amended to read as follows:
''(2) Applicable percentage defined.--For purposes of
paragraph (1), the term 'applicable percentage' means 30
percent reduced (but not below 20 percent) by 1 percentage
point for each $3,000 (or fraction thereof) by which the
taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $50,000.''
(b) Increase in Maximum Amount Creditable.--
(1) In general.--Section 21(c) (relating to dollar limit on
amount creditable) is amended--
(A) by striking ''$2,400'' in paragraph (1) and
inserting ''$4,000'', and
(B) by striking ''$4,800'' in paragraph (2) and
inserting ''$8,000''.
(2) Phaseout for taxpayers with adjusted gross income in
excess of $50,000.--
(A) In general.--Section 21(c) is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
''(2) Limitation based on adjusted gross income.--If the
taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year exceeds
$50,000, the applicable dollar amount under paragraph (1) shall
be reduced as follows:
''(A) The $4,000 amount under paragraph (1)(A)
shall be reduced (but not below $2,400) by $53.33 for
each $1,000 (or fraction thereof) of such excess.
''(B) The $8,000 amount under paragraph (1)(B)
shall be reduced (but not below $4,800) by $106.66 for
each $1,000 (or fraction thereof) of such excess.''
(2) Conforming amendments.--Section 21(c), as amended by
subsection (b), is amended--
(A) by striking ''The amount'' and inserting:
''(1) In general.--The amount'',
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and
(C) by striking ''paragraph (1) or (2)'' and
inserting ''subparagraph (A) or (B)''.
(c) Credit Made Refundable.--
(1) In general.--Section 21 (relating to credit for
expenses for household and dependent care services), as amended
by this section, is transferred to subpart C of part IV of
subchapter A of chapter 1, inserted after section 35, and
redesignated as section 36.
(2) Conforming amendments.--
(A) Section 129 is amended--
(i) by striking ''21(e)'' in subsection
(a)(2)(C) and inserting ''36(e)'',
(ii) by striking ''21(d)(2)'' in subsection
(b)(2) and inserting ''36(d)(2)'', and
(iii) by striking ''21(b)(2)'' in
subsection (e)(1) and inserting ''36(b)(2)''.
(B) Section 213(e) is amended by striking ''section
21'' and inserting ''section 36''.
(3) Clerical amendments.--
(A) The table of sections for subpart A of part IV
of subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by striking the
item relating to section 21.
(B) The table of sections for subpart C of part IV
of subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by adding at
the end the following new item:

''Sec. 36. Expenses for household and
dependent care services
necessary for gainful
employment.''
(d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1997.

SEC. 3. OFFSETS OF REVENUE LOSS.

(a) Modifications to Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.--
(1) Repeal of $70,000 exclusion.--Paragraph (1) of section
911(a) (relating to exclusion from gross income) is amended by
inserting ''in the case of taxable years beginning before
January 1, 1998,'' before ''the foreign earned income''.
(2) Qualified schooling expenses.--
(A) In general.--Section 911(a) is amended by
striking ''and'' at the end of paragraph (1), by
striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and
inserting '', and'', and by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:
''(3) the qualified schooling expenses of such
individual.''
(B) Qualified schooling expenses.--Section 911 is
amended by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as
subsections (f) and (g) and by inserting after
subsection (d) the following new subsection:
''(e) Qualified Schooling Expenses.--For purposes of this section--
''(1) In general.--For purposes of this section, the term
'qualified schooling expenses' means the reasonable schooling
expenses paid or incurred by or on behalf of the individual
during the taxable year for the education of each dependent of
the individual at the elementary or secondary level. For
purposes of the preceding sentence, the elementary or secondary
level means education which is the equivalent of education from
the kindergarten through the 12th grade in a United States-type
school.
''(2) Expenses included.--For purposes of paragraph (1),
the term 'schooling expenses' means the cost of tuition, fees,
books, and local transportation and of other expenses required
by the school. Except as provided in paragraph (3), such term
does not include expenses of room and board or expenses of
transportation other than local transportation.
''(3) Room, board, and travel allowed in certain cases.--If
an adequate United States-type school is not available within a
reasonable commuting distance of the individual's tax home, the
expenses of room and board of the dependent and the expenses of
the transportation of the dependent each school year between
such tax home and the location of the school shall be treated
as schooling expenses.
''(4) Determination of reasonable expenses.--If--
''(A) there is an adequate United States-type
school available within a reasonable commuting distance
of the individual's tax home, and
''(B) the dependent attends a school other than the
school referred to in subparagraph (A),
then the amount taken into account under paragraph (2) shall
not exceed the aggregate amount which would be charged for the
period by the school referred to in subparagraph (A).
''(5) Period taken into account.--An amount shall be taken
into account as a qualified schooling expense only if it is
attributable to education for a period during which the
individual's tax home is in a foreign country.
''(6) Special rules where schooling expenses not provided
by employer.--
''(A) In general.--To the extent the qualified
schooling expenses of any individual for any taxable
year is not attributable to employer provided amounts,
such expenses shall be treated as a deduction allowable
in computing adjusted gross income to the extent of the
limitation of subparagraph (B).
''(B) Limitation.--For purposes of subparagraph
(A), the limitation of this subparagraph is the excess
of--
''(i) the foreign earned income of the
individual for the taxable year, over
''(ii) the amount of such income excluded
from gross income under subsection (a) for the
taxable year.
''(C) 1-year carryover of expenses not allowed by
reason of subparagraph (b).--
''(i) In general.--The amount not allowable
as a deduction for any taxable year under
subparagraph (A) by reason of the limitation of
subparagraph (B) shall be treated as a
deduction allowable in computing adjusted gross
income for the succeeding taxable year (and
only for the succeeding taxable year) to the
extent of the limitation of clause (ii) for
such succeeding taxable year.
''(ii) Limitation.--For purposes of clause
(i), the limitation of this clause for any
taxable year is the excess of--
''(I) the limitation of
subparagraph (B) for such taxable year,
over
''(II) amounts treated as a
deduction under subparagraph (A) for
such taxable year.
''(D) Employer provided amounts.--For purposes of
this paragraph, the term 'employer provided amounts'
means any amount paid or incurred on behalf of the
individual by the individual's employer which is
foreign earned income included in the individual's
gross income for the taxable year (without regard to
this section).''
(C) Conforming amendment.--Section 911(d)(7) is
amended by inserting ''or (e)(6)(A)'' after
''subsection (c)(3)(A)''.
(3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection
shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1997.
(b) Savings From Welfare Reform.--If there is an overall decrease
in Federal revenues for any fiscal year by reason of this Act (without
regard to this subsection), such decrease shall be offset by the
decrease in Federal expenditures for such fiscal year by reason of the
amendments made by, and provisions of, the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193).
A:
Working Family Child Care Tax Relief Act of 1996 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the child and dependent care credit to: (1) increase such credit and make it refundable; and (2) provide it with an income-based phaseout and limitation.
Eliminates the foreign earned income exclusion as of a specified date. Allows an exclusion for overseas qualified elementary and secondary schooling expenses.