What's New?

New Resource from the Brookings Institution
Using detailed data from the 2007 American Community Survey, The Brookings Institution has created profiles of EITC-eligible taxpayers in each state and in the 100 largest metropolitan areas throughout the country.  These profiles provide a range of information on the EITC-eligible population in your community, including filing status, number of qualifying children, adjusted gross income and size of EITC for which they qualify.  
>The profiles are available at: http://www.brookings.edu/metro/EITC/EITC-Profiles.aspx

New Report from the Tax Policy Institute
The EITC has succeeded in bringing low-income women into the workforce. This paper analyzes several EITC reforms directed at increasing the EITC for low-income workers, primarily men with the goal of bringing less-educated men into the labor force. The Next Stage for Social Policy: Encouraging Work and Family Formation among Low-Income Men estimates the cost of various proposals and puts forth an additional proposal that breaks the EITC into two groups – one for individual workers and one for families with children.
>Read the report

New Mexico expands state EITC
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson called a special session in August to consider tax relief, highway financing, health care and other economic issues. As part of the package, New Mexico will provide a one-time tax rebate for families earning up to $70,000. Also part of the package is a permanent expansion to the state's EITC from 8 percent to 10 percent of the federal EITC. The expanded credit will be available for tax year 2008 and beyond.

EITC Data by State Legislative District
The Brookings Institution has available EITC data by state legislative districts. The data includes total number of tax filers, number of EITC filers, EITC amount claimed, EITC filers by adjusted gross income, number of RALs requested by all filers and number of RALs requested by EITC filers. Also available are maps showing EITC participants as a percentage of total tax returns by state legislative district.
> Download state-by-state data and state-by-state maps

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