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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...