Childcare costs - Reduced, tax deductible or cashflow support

[NoRegretsCoyote]

It's quite simple.

You just need big state subsidies for childcare. A little means tested, but not too much. Say everyone pays between 30% and 50% of childcare costs out of pocket depending on income.

The state spends money on much worse!

 

[Purple]

It's quite simple.

You just need big state subsidies for childcare. A little means tested, but not too much. Say everyone pays between 30% and 50% of childcare costs out of pocket depending on income.

The state spends money on much worse!

Making it tax deductible would give about the same result but without any additional State bureaucracy. We're falling over ourselves with State bodies and State funded Charities distributing money but distributing it net of their costs and those costs are huge. A better managed taxation system with refundable tax credits would be a far more efficient way of doing things.