Georgia's Education Tax Credit Program

In 2008, Georgia’s lawmakers passed HB 1133, the Education Expense Credit law, to give parents and students better access to more educational opportunities. Their efforts and resulting legislation is regarded as one of the nation’s best Education Tax Credit laws.  The law allows:
  • Eligible students to use this scholarship to attend any Georgia private school of their choosing
  • Georgia taxpayers to receive a dollar-for-dollar, state income tax credit for contributions​
In 2018, Georgia's lawmakers passed HB 217 which further strengthened the Education Tax Credit law, increased the size of the fund from $58 million to $100 million and improved the transparency and accountability of SSOs. 

Make Your Request Before The Cap Is Reached...

The Education Tax Credit program opens on the first day of business each January and has a statewide cap of $100 million.  Once the cap is reached, no further donation requests are approved for that year.  In 2014, the cap was met in just 22 days.  However, since 2015 the fund cap has been reached on the very first day.  We anticipate that this trend will continue going forward.

Go ahead and take a moment of your time to complete the Donation Request form for 2019 so that we'll have it on file and can submit it on the first available day in 2019.  This is a First Come, First Served system, so don't delay.