North Carolina College Voting Bill Seeks To Tax Parents Of Students Who Change Registration [View all]

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SB 667, sponsored by a group of Republicans, would amend current tax exemption practices to levy large additional fees on the parents of college students who register to vote anywhere in the state that isn't listed as their home address.

"If the voter is a dependent of the voter's parent or legal guardian, is 18 years of age or older and the voter has registered at an address other than that of the parent or legal guardian, the parent or legal guardian will not be allowed to claim the voter as a dependent for state income tax purposes," the bill reads.

State exemptions for dependent children range between $2,000 and $2,500, so North Carolinians whose children go to school elsewhere in the state could be seeing a big tax hit if their children change their registration. But as Laura Conaway notes at The Maddow Blog, the Supreme Court ruled in the 1979 case Symm v. United States that students have a constitutional right to register where they go to school.

SB 667 would also require college students who change their registration to register their vehicle at the new address within 60 days and begin paying local property tax.
The voting measure is part of a larger ongoing effort by North Carolina Republicans to restrict access to the polls.

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