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The Michigan League for Human Services has released reports showing the impact of the reduced Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit for each state legislative district starting in the 2012 tax year. The reports detail the major tax increase imposed on working families by the new law – a tax increase that may well damage businesses those families frequent.
View the reports sent to state senators.
View the reports sent to state representatives.
The tax plan – which passed in 2011 – would give filers a 6 percent match of the federal EITC, rather than the 20 percent match as the credit stands now. Earlier proposals eliminated this important poverty fighting tool.
See how the EITC would affect your district by clicking one of the links below.
Find your representative. Searchable Excel files here.
Find your senator. Searchable Excel files here.
Statewide projections of the EITC reductions are available here.
We are the EITC
A plan in the Michigan Legislature to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit will raise taxes on nearly 800,000 lower-income working families and their children by $330 million, while supporting a massive $1.8 billion tax cut for businesses.
We need to save the EITC — and you can help.
Tell your lawmakers to protect the EITC
Do you support Michigan’s working families? Let your lawmakers know.
Watch the video above, and share it with your friends
This video features the faces of the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit — working mothers, veterans who served their country, and small businesses owners. Share this video with everyone you can — let them know that the EITC goes to hard-working families struggling just to get by.
Join the conversation
Use the Twitter hashtag #saveoureitc to see what other people are saying about the Earned Income Tax Credit — and join the conversation yourself.
