I’m not saying that you had kids for the tax breaks, but no one at Briefly Taxing would judge you if this consideration didn’t play a small role in the decision to bring your dependents (children, rather) into the world.  With that having been said, let’s talk about the 2021 child tax credit. Congress Had Kids, Too (Apparently) Like a groundhog seeing its shadow in February, at some point in 1997, Congress chanced upon its