February 13 Briefing – How Will Tax Reform Affect Tax Credits for Low-Wage Workers?
With tax reform looming on the agenda for the 115th Congress and Trump administration, how will tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit fare? On February 13, 2017, Spotlight and Tax Credits for Workers and their Families co-hosted a bipartisan Capitol Hill briefing to discuss research and political developments around tax credits for low-wage workers and how they might fare under the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress. Panelists broadly agreed that the Earned Income Tax Credit has been an extremely effective anti-poverty measure and that bipartisan reform to improve it could be possible in 2017.
Watch the full briefing here: