Tax Policy Center

Options to Expand Credits for Low-Income Households

Individual Taxes: Earned Income Tax Credit
2007-17 Impact on tax liability and revenue for three options to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit for families with three or more children: increasing the phase-in rate, increasing the phase-in rate and reducing the phase-out threshold, and increasing the phase-in rate by a smaller amount and
February 18, 2007
Individual Taxes: Child Tax Credit
2007-11 Impact on tax liability and revenue for three options to expand the child credit: resetting the refundability threshold to $10,000, resetting the refundability threshold to $10,000 and freezing it in nominal terms, and freezing the refundability threshold at its current level of $11,750 in
February 18, 2007
Individual Taxes: Earned Income Tax Credit
2007-17 Impact on tax liability and revenue for three options to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers with no children: increasing the phase-in and phase-out rates and increasing the phase-out threshold, extending the phase-in range and increasing the phase-out threshold, and increasing
February 18, 2007
Individual Taxes: Earned Income Tax Credit
2007 Distribution of federal tax change by cash income class resulting from an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit phase-in rate to 45 percent for filers with three or more children
February 25, 2007
Individual Taxes: Earned Income Tax Credit
2007 Distribution of federal tax change by cash income percentile resulting from an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit phase-in rate to 45 percent for filers with three or more children
February 25, 2007
Individual Taxes: Child Tax Credit
2007 Distribution of federal tax change by cash income class resulting from resetting the threshold at which the refundable child credit begins to phase in to $10,000
February 25, 2007
Individual Taxes: Child Tax Credit
2007 Distribution of federal tax change by cash income percentile resulting from resetting the threshold at which the refundable child credit begins to phase in to $10,000
February 25, 2007