Taxation

Fiscal policy

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The IRS estimates four out of five eligible workers claim the Earned Income Tax Credit — meaning about one in five leave money they're owed unclaimed.

Internal Revenue Service ↗ · Tax year 2022

What would make claiming money you're already owed less of a maze?

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— Small-business owner— Independent / unaffiliated— Parent

I did my own taxes this year for the first time in a while and realized I couldn't explain a single line of the form to my kid. A system this tangled isn't an accident — someone is paid to keep it complicated. If we got to start over on a blank page, what's the one thing you'd insist we keep?

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— Independent / unaffiliated— Engineer— Faith community

I think we should make the fair value of one’s volunteer hours to public charities deductible from income tax up to a percentage max. Why do we allow the fair value of donated goods to be written off but not volunteer services?

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