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Tax Filing and Take-Up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and EITC Participation / Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Rizwan Javaid, Brenda Schafer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldin, Jacob.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28398.
- NBER working paper series no. w28398
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Governments and non-profits devote substantial resources to increasing take-up of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) through educational outreach. We study a different approach: policies that encourage tax filing. In a large field experiment, we find that IRS letters about free tax preparation modestly increased filing, with a large share of the new filers claiming the EITC. The results suggest policies that increase filing can be an effective way to increase take-up of tax-administered social benefits, even policies that do not raise awareness or directly target the benefit in other ways.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2021.
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