WHEREAS, employers who hire wheel chair users have
received a tax break for removing architectural barriers, while
at the same time there has not been a proper tax break for employers who remove information barriers by providing readers or reading devices to assist blind employees in obtaining access to the printed word;
AND, WHEREAS, The National Federation of the Blind has requested that Congress act to bring about a more equitable set of circumstances which would encourage the employment of blind persons by amending S120 so that it would contain a provision crediting a tax credit to employers of blind persons or to the self employed blind for the expenses incurred in hiring readers or purchasing devices to assist blind persons in gaining access to the printed word;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland in Convention assembled this 15th day of October, 1983 in the City of Gaithersburg, Maryland that this organization urge all members of the Maryland Congressional Delegation to support the reader tax credit amendments to S120 and work for the passage of this important legislation.