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Posted on 03/24/2019 7:24:14 PM PDT by Steve Schulin
FLORENCE, S.C. – A new organization in South Carolina has made a mission out of making sure that those who are eligible take advantage of the earned income tax credit on their 2019 federal and state taxes.
Working Hero South Carolina is a statewide campaign led Rania Jamison. The organization is an offshoot of a California-based organization founded by Joe Sanberg that has helped 2 million people receive more than $4 billion in state and federal taxes.
“Working Hero Action was founded in California by a rags-to-riches guy named Joe Sanberg,” said Jamison, the state director of Working Hero South Carolina. “He has become a millionaire, but he has decided to invest money into working to end poverty. He believes that the best way to do that is to elevate the earned income tax credit.”
Jamison said the organization has two goals: make sure people take advantage of the earned income tax credit if they’re eligible.
According to a news release provided by Working Hero South Carolina, at the federal level, 1 in 5 people eligible for the earned income tax credit don’t claim it.
Nationwide, there was approximately $50 billion in unclaimed earned income tax credits, S.C. Rep. Terry Alexander said.
“In South Carolina, our numbers are really towering,” Jamison said.
At the federal level, an estimated 119,000 South Carolina residents who are eligible fail to take advantage of the tax credit. This leaves $309 million in unclaimed credits.
Jamison said the top three reasons why people fail to take advantage of the tax credit are that filers don’t know it exists, they don’t know they’re eligible for the credit or they don’t earn enough income to be required to file taxes.
To be eligible for the credit, one must fall beneath a certain level of income depending upon how many dependents one has.
“So if you think about somebody who’s making less than $20,000 per year, they know that they don’t have that tax burden, but they have money in the system,” Jamison said.
Jamison said that one does not have to have a child to claim the credit. She said the top-of-the-line eligibility for a single filer was around $54,000 and for a married couple was $98,000.
Alexander said if the additional funds were claimed, it could provide an economic stimulus.
Jamison added that the additional funds could help those struggling to pay their bills as well.
One way the organization works to help those eligible for the credit is to make sure those eligible aren’t taken advantage of when they file their taxes.
“Especially when you think about people who are struggling with their basic necessities," Jamison said. "Many of them are actually taken advantage of when it comes to filing their taxes. So you have folks in the little dark, back corner rooms or furniture companies or even car lots who are like just bring us your W-2 and we’ll figure it out.”
Jamison said there are two free resources for filers: the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program at Francis Marion University and SC Thrive. She added that SC Thrive can work on returns three previous years.
South Carolina adopted the earned income tax credit in 2017 becoming the 27th state in the nation offer an earned income tax credit on top of the federal credit. The credit is nonrefundable at the state level. The credit became law on July 1, 2017 after the General Assembly overrode the veto of Gov. Henry McMaster on May 10, 2017.
At the federal level, the earned income tax credit was enacted in 1975. It is credited as the third-largest social welfare program in the United States after Medicaid and food stamps.
Alexander said the earned income tax credit was a major way of eradicating poverty.
One can find out more information about the Earned Income Tax Credit by texting Working Hero Action at 31996.
[photo caption] Working Hero South Carolina State Director Rania Jamison and Regional Representative Tiffany James discuss the Earned Income Tax Credit on Friday morning. [photo credit: MATTHEW CHRISTIAN/MORNING NEWS]
Reparations.
It’s free money!
Just don’t call it welfare.
Illegals can apply for it too!!!
More Cloward-Piven nudging. Much like Obama practically begging people to get on food stamps.
So the communists want to tax the rich more... so the poor can take more money from the government instead of paying their fair share?
BS.
Thanks to welfare and “programs for the poor” - I worked myself througg
College and sacrificed my life and time to do well and make a decent income to, in turn, be taxed more to pay for my friend’s family who had his college paid for but got a liberal arts degree and now can’t find work so his kids get their college paid for by the government (me) (which includes room and board) and they’re going for, you guessed it, liberal arts degrees.
(Did I mention he’s a good leftist?)
This has to be the worst tax program in the history of federal taxes.
At the federal level, the earned income tax credit was enacted in 1975. It is credited as the third-largest social welfare program in the United States after Medicaid and food stamps.
Working Hero Action - sounds like some loser SJW action figure for underprivileged yutes.
refunds for free-loaders. Yipee.
so whats in it for this Joe Sanberg guy??
something smells (yea! like money)
Hah - I still support repealing the 16th Amendment. The biggest benefit would be related to liberty (like eliminating how so many churches are so cowed by the risk of losing their 501(c)(3) status). The 2007-2008 economic crisis would have been a great time to do this — the lack of federal taxes on corporations would have solved the liquidity crisis without the bailouts and subsequent quantitative easings. The growth of EITC is just another enormous example of the use of federal income taxes to transform our nation, and NOT for the better.
The money is staggering.
3000 a kid, i think. at the least, 2000.
know a woman in the projects who told me she got thousands back, just forget exactly how much.
and she makes so little she almost pays no taxes.
So she EARNED our taxes.
I do not give to my college because of their insistence of giving to the “less fortunate” who are really lazy buttholes who expect others to give them everything.
I am deep in tax season right now and all I can say is this person is not exactly lying but is so flexible in their handling of the truth that they might as well be.
Unless you spent 90% of your income on something deductible like medical bills a $15.00 an hour worker with no overtime and no child will not qualify for a EITC. A $10.00 an hour worker without a child might get Ten whole dollars.
This is ardent nonsense.
Learning how to “gain the system” for EIC and Head of Household is probably part of street cred. At least when I prepared taxes for a franchise some years ago, that seemed to be the case.
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According to the IRS: IRS estimates that between 21 percent to 26 percent of EITC claims are paid in error. Some of the errors are unintentional caused by the complexity of the law, but some of the claims are intentional disregard of the law. Here are the questions preparers frequently ask concerning fraud.Feb 6, 2019
Fraud | EITC & Other Refundable Credits - EITC Central - IRS.gov
I too once prepared taxes for a franchise (H&R Block). The system, by design, is made for fraudulant claims.
Thanks for clarifying that. Do you have any insights on another stat in the article: “At the federal level, an estimated 119,000 South Carolina residents who are eligible fail to take advantage of the tax credit. This leaves $309 million in unclaimed credits.” That works out to a little over $2,500 per filer. Does that ring true?
Even if you do your taxes on a 1040-EZ it is simple to find out if you qualify. If you do your taxes on line there is simply no way you could miss it.
Possibly what this person is looking at is the number of people who earn under $20,000 a year and don't get the EITC but there are any number of reasons why you do not qualify. One of my clients would qualify, except he is a dependent child. Another would but for the child support checks. Some get SS or SSI and because of that they do not qualify.
I doubt there are more then a couple of thousand that qualify and do not get and that is usually because they don't want to qualify, usually for religious reasons.
If people are too stupid, lazy, or ignorant to cash in on a freebie — maybe it’s just as well they don’t collect it.
thx for giving us Toon twice,bama twice,and the likes of rat senators in Wisconsin,as well as multiple other arses that libtards elect all the time and then they wonder why their govt is so insane.....
If the GOP wants or needs my future vote, they’ll have to nominate somebody who comes close to representing my views. They haven’t done that for a long time. If you’re one of the “pick a winner” kind of voters, and you think you’ll need my vote to win, well, I can live with that. I urge all of good will to decide, well ahead of elections, what their own personal minimum standard is for supporting a candidate. If none of the announced candidates meet that standard, please consider raising up one who does.
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