Jim Blew, Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Coalition (Invited)
Deborah Gist, Future School Fund
Scott Palmer, Education Counsel LLC (Invited)
Raymond Pierce, Southern Education Foundation
Launching in January 2027, the new Section 25F Education Freedom Tax Credit creates a federal credit for donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations—bringing with it novel donor-reporting mandates, state-level participation elections, and income-eligibility safe harbors that practitioners and SGOs must operationalize immediately. This panel centers on the Section 25F framework while surveying the broader education-tax overhaul—the tiered endowment excise tax scaling to eight percent and the removal of the religious-institution exemption, the expanded net-investment-income base, permanent Section 127 indexing and timing relief, revised Section 501(c)(3) public-policy and Johnson Amendment standards, and the enhanced 529, AOTC, and Lifetime Learning rules.