Maryland Politicians Want More Taxpayers to Claim Tax Credits

Top Maryland officials are partnering with a nonprofit research organization to plan a campaign encouraging all eligible Maryland tax filers to claim Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs).

“It’s not enough to just have these tax credits on the books,” House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, a Baltimore County Democrat, said at a news conference in Annapolis Thursday. “We need more outreach, because Marylanders need to know about them, they need to know how to apply for them, they need to know how to claim them.”

In partnership with the Urban Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based out of Washington, D.C., the Maryland General Assembly and Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, Comptroller Brooke Lierman said she was able to identify that between 18% and 21% of eligible tax filers did not claim the state EITC over the past three years.

The research partnership between the state and the Urban Institute is funded by philanthropic organizations, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the T. Rowe Price Foundation, the Greater Washington Community Foundation and the Abell Foundation.

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Source: The Baltimore Sun