Permanent Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) | 2023 Maryland Legislative Agenda
Decreasing Poverty and Increasing Hope
The Earned Income Tax Credit is essential to decreasing poverty in Black and brown communities and improving livelihoods.
– Gustavo Torres, CASA Executive Director Tweet
In 2021 the Maryland General Assembly passed the most effective anti-poverty and pro-low-income families legislation seen in the country. The earned income and child tax credit expansion to include all Marylanders regardless of immigration status uplifted thousands of hardworking, tax-paying Maryland families facing economic hardship.
Allows hard-working, taxpayers, regardless of immigration status, to keep more of their earned income
Gives families financial stability and security
Supports post-pandemic economic recovery for those most adversely affected
Improves our state and local economies
We know that economic recovery from the pandemic-era shutdowns has been disproportionate, however, after being excluded from receiving thousands of dollars in federal and state Covid relief stimulus payments undocumented immigrant communities have faced the brunt of the economic crisis. With price increases, stagnant wages, and high inflation it is imperative that the General Assembly make permanent the progress they green-lit in 2021.