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Xavier Becerra: By not providing for that tax credit for employers that try to provide education to some of their employees, what we are…

On the recordJuly 10, 1997
By not providing for that tax credit for employers that try to provide education to some of their employees, what we are doing is saying if an employer has decided that it would be good for that employee to get further trained, that no longer can the employer say to that employee, you can now get that training and we will both receive the benefits of a tax credit by having had you better educated. Now the IRS will have to decide if there is any tax credit to be had by the employer or the employee.
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California

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Discussing the implications of not providing a tax credit for employers offering education to employees.

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