Rewarding Work In NC: The Impact Of The State EITC
Alexandra Sirota of the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center analyzes the county-by-county impact of the state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 2010.
That year, 883,228 working families in North Carolina received $110.1 million in EITC-related tax refunds. Refunds were delivered to families in every one of the state’s 100 counties. Moreover, the number of families receiving the credit grew by 9.6 percent between 2008 and 2010.