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Policy Basics

Building on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, we conceived the concept of state-level EITCs.

With our encouragement and assistance, about half of the states have enacted this tool, providing a total of $3 billion to help 9 million households with low incomes make ends meet. State EITCs help such households offset state taxes that disproportionately burden households with low incomes. We work closely with members of the State Priorities Partnership to maintain and expand EITCs where they exist, and to bring them to more states.

States Improving Tax Credits for Working Families

Six of the 29 states (plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) with Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) are expanding them this year, which will help low-paid workers and their families meet...

Virginia Misses Chance to Advance Racial Equity

Virginia ended its 2019 legislative session after enacting a new tax law that failed to expand the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-wage workers. An EITC expansion would have reduced...

Puerto Rico on Verge of Implementing an EITC

With Puerto Rico’s governor signing a major tax package into law today, the Commonwealth is slated to implement a local Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 2019. The EITC is a proven and much-needed...

Celebrating VITA, a Vital Taxpayer Service

Each year, IRS-certified volunteers and trained reviewers provide free tax preparation services to millions of low- and moderate-income Americans through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)...

New Federal Tax Law Reduces Value of State EITCs

The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) helps working families making low wages meet basic needs, but the new federal tax law will erode the credit’s value over time. Since all but one of the...