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T19-0017 - Remove $2,500/$3,000 Child Tax Credit Refundability Threshold and Make Entire Credit Refundable; Baseline: Current Law; Distribution of Federal Tax Change by Expanded Cash Income Percentile, 2019

Distributional estimate for a (1) proposal to eliminate the earnings threshold to calculate the refundable portion of the CTC and (2) make the full $2,000 CTC for children under 17 refundable (by ECI percentile)

April 1, 2019