Toolkit: Maximizing the Earned Income Tax Credit in Your Community

Posted by on October 8, 2004

Dear Friends:

I wanted to alert you all that the National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education, and Families just released “Maximizing the Earned Income Tax Credit in Your Community: A Toolkit for Municipal Leaders”.

As many of you know, municipal officials can provide critical leadership to launch or support campaigns to connect families to the EITC and related tax credits and benefits. The new EITC toolkit offers a detailed guide to the opportunities for municipal leadership, including:

*public education to ensure that eligible families know about the EITC and other relevant supports;
*free or low-cost tax preparation campaigns to help them claim the credit; and
*efforts to maximize the value of the credit by providing incentives to save or make investments that will promote self-sufficiency.

This publication is based on the latest research and best practices from across the nation including a lot of input from NCTC members. It includes a variety of city examples, key roles for city officials, and advice from municipal leaders who are already engaged in similar efforts.

An easy-to-navigate electronic version is available on the YEF Institute’s portion of the NLC website. Visit: http://www.nlc.org or http://www.nlc.org/iyef.

We hope that many of you find this to be a helpful resource.

Sincerely,

Abby Hughes Holsclaw and Julie Bosland

National League of Cities
Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
Email: holsclaw@nlc.org