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T18-0055 - Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for Childless Workers; Baseline: Current Law; Distribution of Federal Tax Change by Expanded Cash Income Level, 2018

Table shows the distributional effect by expanded cash income level in 2018 of a proposal to expand the EITC for childless workers by: increasing phase-in and phase-out rates to 15.3 percent; increasing start of phase-out to same value as for those with children; lowering minimum eligible age from 25 to 21. Baseline is current law as of July 12, 2018. For more information on TPC’s baseline definitions, see http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/Baseline-Definitions.cfm. 

July 12, 2018