[mdittmar]

It's possible some of those eligible for the credit don't claim it because they have illegal immigrants in the household and fear the IRS will share their information with immigration authorities. The IRS says it doesn't do that.

"We divulge that information to no one," Williams said. "We would not be divulging Social Security numbers or taxpayer identification numbers to other third parties."

[mdittmar]

And the PI also gives out info for tax help,who tops the list?
TAX HELP Here are some places in King County where you can get free tax help in coming weeks: ACORN Working Families Prosperity Centers

[blam]

Money taken from the productive to buy the vote of the non-productive. Ain’t America great!

[cowdog77]

“We divulge that information to no one,” Williams said.
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Williams = not the brightest bulb in the box.

[LostInBayport]

There is also an English-Spanish "EITC Assistant" tool on the IRS Web site at www.irs.gov. The agency is also reaching out to Native Americans, people with disabilities and those in rural areas who may be eligible for the credit

They are taking a page from the playbook of the People's Republic of Massachusetts. I switch to CDs during the commercials on talk radio - not just out of boredom, but because of the constant advertisements for food stamps. Yes, Mass. is using taxpayer dollars to encourage people to sign up for welfare.

Insane.

[Arthur McGowan]

I knew a woman who worked as a cleaning woman in govt. buildings, making about $13,000 a year. She went for a decade taking care of two grandsons, paying thousands upon thousands in taxes that she didn’t owe, because she didn’t know she could claim grandchildren as dependents. And why SHOULD a hard-working, poor woman be expected to know all her rights amid 50,000 pages of tax law?

I thought of that woman every time I beheld and gross, bloated image of Thomas P. “Baby-Murderer” O’Neill.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I can’t be the only one who is sickened by the term “working families”. It’s so ridiculous to think that those who earn $8 per hour somehow work harder than those who make $90k per year.

[tutstar]

gnip...

[Ben Chad]

Why don't the call it what it is: Earned Income Credit REDISTRIBUTION.

[eastcobb]

The fact that the IRS has to make a big push to inform low income tax payers of a credit that they qualify for is why a lot of these people are low income earners in the first place.