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Iowa Fiscal Partnership SNAPSHOT: Earned Income Tax Credit
WhytheEITCmatterstoIowaworkingfamiliesEvenwiththeEarnedIncomeTaxCredit,Iowa’staxsystemisskewedagainstlower-incometaxpayers.Theregressiveimpactofpropertyandsalestaxescauseslow-incomeearnerstopayagreatershareoftheirmeagerincomeintax.ThesesamefamiliesbenefitfromIowa’sEITC.WhobenefitsfromtheEITCBycounty,countiesshadedingreenarebelowthestateaverage;countiesshadedinyellowareabovethestateaverage,basedonpercentageofIowaincometaxreturnsclaimingtheEITC.
EITC filers by Iowa legislative district, 2013 (latest available from IRS)
Source: Brookings Institution analysis of IRS data.