Corporate Voices for Working Families has released its 2009 Employer Guide, which provides companies with the tools to help employees take advantage of tax credits and other benefits. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other benefits.
This Employer Guide was made possible through the generous support of the Annie E. Casey, Ford and Hitachi Foundations.
The 2009 EITC Toolkit also includes:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law in February adjusted various tax benefits, including some contained in our 2008 EITC toolkit. You will find the EITC expansion, along with the Child Tax Credit increase, in this document.
These paycheck stuffers, available in both English and Spanish are an easy way to educate your employees about benefits they may be eligible for.
Corporate Voices for Working Families has released its 2008 Employer Guide, which provides companies with the tools to help employees take advantage of tax credits and other federal benefits. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other federal benefits.
You can use the resources in the Employer Guide to educate yourself and those who work for you throughout the year. To help your employees get these valuable benefits, make note of these important deadlines.
This EITC poster can be hung in a break room or other area where employees can see it.
One way to help your employees avoid refund anticipation loans, check cashers, and other high-priced predatory refund products is through stored value cards. A stored value card can deliver the speed and convenience of an electronically filed/direct deposit refund for employees without a bankaccount. Sometimes called “prepaid debit cards,” stored value cards may be branded by Visa or MasterCard.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 2, 2009) -- Corporate Voices for Working Families, a nonprofit corporate membership organization in Washington, D.C., has released its 2008 Employer Guide: Educate Your Employees About the Benefits They’ve Earned. This is the sixth year that Corporate Voices has updated the Employer Guide and made it available to companies as a way to help low-wage employees take advantage of a host of federal benefits available to them. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other federal benefits.
WASHINGTON (June 25, 2008) -- Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) proposed legislation today to educate employees about the availability of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Under this proposal, employers would notify their employees that they may qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. The notification would occur annually on the employee’s W-2 form.