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The child tax credit or CTC is a kind of tax benefit provided to parents with dependent children. Governments of various countries provide this benefit to their citizens. The tax benefit or credit usually depends on the number of children relying on a taxpayer. This benefit sometimes is also considered based on the income level of a taxpayer. 

Further, if we talk about child tax credit in terms of the United States, this benefit comes from the American Rescue Plan. American President Biden signed this rescue plan in March 2021. It is a financial initiative from the government to provide monetary aid to families. Moreover, the cash payments of the tax benefit will start from July 15. If you are one of the families who is eligible for the tax credit, stay here. Here is everything you need to know about the monthly payment of tax credit that is going to begin in July.    

Monthly payments of the child tax credit in July

The families of about 65 million U.S. kids will start receiving the tax payments in a few weeks. As we have mentioned above, the child tax credit was started by the U.S. President in March 2021. Under this tax benefit, the highest child tax benefit is $3,600 only for children below 6 years of age. And this benefit is $3,000 for children between 6 and 17 years of age.        

The government will provide the benefit in monthly installments as an advance for 2021 taxes. If a household is eligible for the full benefit, one will receive a payment of $300 monthly for the dependent child whose age is below 6 years and $250 monthly for those whose age lies between 6 and 17. 

Who is eligible for the maximum enhanced credit?

The tax benefit will cover most American families. 

Married couples with dependent children will come under the full benefit who file their taxes jointly. Also, the adjusted gross income should be less than $1,50,000 or $75,000 for both individuals. Further, the added tax benefit will be discontinued for those who pay taxes but earn more money. On the other hand, the benefit will cease for those who earn $95,000 and the married couple who earn $1,70,000 and file taxes jointly. 

Moreover, some families who earn more than that will get the tax benefit. In that case, the benefit will be $2000 for each child whose age is below 17 for the households who earn less than $200000 per year or $400000 if they are couples. 

What the eligible families will need to do from their end?

There is no need to do anything for most of the households. The official sources will take 2020 tax returns into use to ensure eligibility. Here tax returns of 2019 will let the official sources know about the individuals who haven’t filed taxes for the last year. Further, the IRS started to provide letters to 36 million eligible families in June.

Here is good news for the households who don’t earn more and so they don’t file taxes but they have dependent children and are eligible to sign up for the tax credit. For this, IRS launched a portal where nonfilters can register themself for the tax benefit. 

In addition, if you are eligible to receive a larger payment or you want to change the recipient of the benefit, you will be able to do the same from June. IRS will start another portal for the same. 

How will you get payments?    

According to the IRS, some monthly tax benefits will be provided through direct deposits. Moreover, if the IRS has clearly mentioned on your tax return about direct deposit meaning you will get payments through the mentioned method. 

On the other hand, if you don’t have a direct deposit system, you will receive paper checks according to the IRS. 

When will you get payments in the future?

According to the IRS, you will get the future payments on the 15 of each month only on official working days. That means the payments will not be credited on a weekend or holiday, it will be only sent on the business day. For example, if you receive the first payment on July 15, the future payments will be sent on Aug.13, Sept. 15, Oct.15, Nov. 15, and Dec. 15. 

Moreover, you will only receive the monthly payments by the end of 2021. Eligible families will get the other half of the payment in 2022 after filing the 2021’s taxes. If we talk about the enhanced credit availability, Joe Biden has said that it will be available through 2025 but many Democrats will want to make it a permanent benefit. 

Can you opt-out? What happens if you do?

Yes, you can opt yourself out from getting monthly payments using the IRS portal that will start in June. If you opt-out from getting monthly payments you will be still eligible for the full credit at the time of filing 2021 taxes. You may also not want to receive your tax refund every month instead you want to get all the payments at once. In that case, you can easily cancel getting monthly payments using the IRS portal when it started. 

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