City Council yesterday called on state congressional leaders to help increase the number of working families benefiting from the federal Earned Income Tax Credit so they can climb out of poverty.
In a resolution sponsored by Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco and unanimously approved by Council, city officials request that the IRS require employers to include tax-credit information when mailing federal W-2 tax forms to their employees.
The tax credit offsets income taxes and provides refunds to families with two or more children who earn less than $34,692 a year. About 45,000 households in the city did not take advantage of the federal program, Tasco said.
