• 2022 calendar year credit cap of $100 million for the Qualified Education Expense (QEE) credit was met this week, on May 2, 2022. GADOR is not accepting any more preapproval forms for 2022.

  • Tax receipts for year 2022 will be ready before end of December 2022. You will be notified to download from your GeorgiaTAP Account

  • Georgia Tax Credit Cap for Calendar Year 2022 is $100,000,000.00

  • Maximum scholarship for a student for the academic year 2022 is 10957

  • If you are a registered donor, please make sure info@georgiatap.org and do-not-reply@georgiatap.org are in "safe list" of your email account so that important email alerts do not end up in junk/spam folder.

  • By registering a donor can receive alerts/notificatiions automatically for important events - "preapproval applied", "approval received", "donation received", "tax receipt ready".

  • Effective Jan 1, 2014 GADOR is no longer accepting preapproval forms via mail. Donors and SSOs must file prepproval forms electronically.

DONATE

HOW TO

Each Georgia taxpayer does have the option of sending their tax dollars to the State Department of Revenue or REDIRECTING those same funds to our Georgia approved Student Scholarship Fund. Donors ARE going to spend the monies one way or the other, we are just asking that instead of sending those funds to the DOR, that you REDIRECT those same funds to private school scholarships.

LIMITS

There is a limit on how much one can redirect. Please see below

Individual Filer Maximum of $1000
Married filing separately Maximum of $1250
Married filing jointly Maximum of $2500
S-corp, LLC Same limits as joint/individual filers
C-corp Upto 75% of Georgia tax liability

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

Participation is a simple two step process - (1) Get approved to donate and (2) Donate. Each of these steps require a simple form to be filled in. Donor can perform these steps by himself/herself (manual) or have GeorgiaTAP handle the donation process on behalf of the donor (automated). When GeorgiaTAP handles the donation process, it can file and track preapproval electronically and keep inform the donor of various stages - "Preapproval Submitted", "Approval Received", "Donation Received", "Scholarship Issued" and "Tax Receipt Ready". To begin this process please