勞動所得稅扣抵制(Earned income tax credit)是美國一種租稅扣抵制度,針對低收入和中等收入的個人和夫婦進行補貼,特別是擁有兒童的夫妻,1975年首次實施。當勞動所得低於一定金額時,部分稅賦可以抵免,以彌補社會安全稅的負擔,並保持工作的誘因[1] 。
勞動所得稅扣抵制是美國最大的減少貧窮計劃。2004年,將近21萬美國家庭接受了超過$36億美元的租稅扣抵。
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Background:
- Section 13 (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館) ("Tax Provisions Related to Retirement, Health, Poverty, Employment, Disability, and Other Social Issues") of the House Ways and Means Committee's Green Book provides historical information, including previous EITC parameters. (The version linked to here is the 2004 edition. Note: it's not published anuually.)
Policy Analysis:
- Congressional Budget Office report for Senate Finance Committee, on "the Effects of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Versus Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit" (January 9, 2007) (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- New Research Findings on the Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 11, 1998 (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): Percentage of Total Tax Returns and Credit Amount by State (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館) a Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report
- The Earned Income Tax Credit at Age 30: What We Know (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), Steve Holt, the Brookings Institution
- The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), Christopher Howard, Princeton University Press, 1997. Mr. Howard discusses the mortgage interest deduction, employer pensions, EITC, and the targeted jobs tax credit as examples of tax expenditures.
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