Numbers of returns reporting the CDCTC and amounts reported under current law baseline vs expansion of the credit, assuming a low participation rate, 2014.
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This document describes the income measure the Tax Policy Center (TPC) uses to analyze the distribution of federal taxes. TPC's income measure, which we call "expanded cash income" (ECI), is a broad measure of pre-tax income. We use it both to rank tax units in distribution tables and to calculate