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Arizona Tax Credit Helps Kids

You can help Tucson kids, from kindergarten through high school, have the greatest academic success by giving them the opportunity to participate in the "extra"--in extra-curricular activities, including sports, arts and field trips and more.

Make your contributionYou can give kids this opportunity by taking advantage of Arizona's public school tax credit program. You just choose to pay some of the state income tax you owe (up to $200 filing single; up to $400 married, filing jointly) directly to a TUSD school. Instead of sending all your tax money to Phoenix, you can spend some of it right here in Tucson to help kids succeed in school.

Your tax credit contribution gives kids an extra chance to stay in school, learn more and do better in their classes. Kids who play sports in school are more likely to stay in school and succeed academically. Kids who participate in fine arts--in programs in art and music--actually do better in basic academic subjects, including math! It's also true that kids can learn a lot on extracurricular field trips.

Best of all, in Arizona, you get your tax credit contribution back--all of it--when you participate now and then file your tax return.

Choose the specific school--and extracurricular activity-- that's important to you to support. Then you get your money back when you file your tax return. It's that simple.

You can make contributions through December 31, but our kids need your help right now. Today. So please, make a contribution right now, by check or by credit card.

So give kids the extra credit--a tax credit contribution that pays for vital extracurricular activites.