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Iowa Budget Dilemma for 2014
1/13/14Iowa lawmakers must recognize the long-term impact of tax cuts on spending choices. Past choices will force future legislatures to lower investments on critical services on which economic growth depends.
Fisher: Last-minute tax deal could put state services at risk
5/25/13The property-tax reform package will be costly and will challenge cities, counties and schools to deliver what Iowans have come to expect.
Expanding Iowa’s Earned Income Tax Credit
5/15/13How the EITC Hits Home
5/14/13In over 200,000 Iowa households, working families are helped by the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. Iowa’s state EITC extends the benefit and lessens the likelihood that a low-income family will have to pay state income tax when they don’t make enough to pay federal income tax. The state EITC is 7 percent of the federal credit, and it is refundable.