{"id":260,"date":"2013-01-17T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=260"},"modified":"2013-01-17T19:01:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:01:26","slug":"report-says-conn-poor-taxed-more-than-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Report says Conn. poor taxed more than rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvoices.org\/publications\/connecticuts-earned-income-tax-credit-boost-working-families-every-town\"target=\"_blank\">report by the advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children<\/a> says 180,000 households benefited from Connecticut&#8217;s Earned Income Tax Credit last year. And the report&#8217;s authors say the state taxes poor people at a higher percentage than the rich.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear Will Stone&#8217;s story on the EITC report here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ws_taxcredit_130110.mp3\">ws_taxcredit_130110<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Dannel Malloy launched the EITC in 2011 as a supplement to the federal tax credit. It\u2019s designed to help working families, especially those with children. On average, households that filed for the credit were making $18,000 a year and received a credit of $600. The credit depends on income and number of children, though, which means a family with two children, could receive a maximum credit of about $1,500. <\/p>\n<p>Wade Gibson of Connecticut Voices for Children is one of the authors of the report. He says these families are already shouldering a heavy tax burden. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese folks are the highest taxed people in Connecticut in terms of state and local taxes because in Connecticut we actually tax poor people more as a proportion of their income than we tax rich people. About twice as much actually\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gibson says this discrepancy results from the way property and sales taxes affect different communities. For example, he says a family making 18,000 dollars a year will spend more of its money on goods. And as a result about 5% of their income will be spent on sales taxes alone. The state credit is currently 30% of the federal income tax credit. He says the two credits will continue to be crucial in keeping Connecticut families out of poverty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children says 180,000 households benefited from Connecticut&#8217;s Earned Income Tax Credit last year. And the report&#8217;s authors say the state taxes poor people at a higher percentage than the rich. You can hear Will Stone&#8217;s story on the EITC report here: ws_taxcredit_130110 Governor Dannel Malloy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}