01/27/2023
On EITC Awareness Day, IRS and partners promote major tax benefit to millions of low- and moderate-income workers
The EITC is a tax credit for certain people who work and have low to moderate income. A tax credit usually reduces tax owed and may also result in a refund. Even though millions of people get the EITC, the IRS estimates that about 20% of EITC eligible taxpayers do not claim it.
Workers at risk for overlooking the EITC include those:
Living in non-traditional homes, such as a grandparent raising a grandchild
Whose earnings declined or whose marital or parental status changed
Without children
With limited English skills
Who are veterans
Living in rural areas
Who are Native Americans
With earnings below the filing requirement.
