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The President's Agenda for Tax Relief

In early 2001, President Bush released a summary of his agenda for tax relief. He claims to offer a "bold and fair tax relief plan that will reduce the inequities of the current tax code and help ensure that America remains prosperous." Highlights of Bush's proposal include doubling the child care credit to $1,000 per child, reinstating the ten percent deduction for two-earner couples, thus...

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/tax-reli...
The Price of Paying Taxes: How Tax Preparation and Refund Loan Fees Erode the Benefits of the EITC

For the first time scholars and researchers have gotten together and prepared an analytical survey on the relationship between Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients and the location of tax preparation services (such as H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt) that offer e-filing and tax returns. Available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), and co-authored by the Brookings Urban Center and the Progressive Policy...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-price-of-paying-taxes...