. First examining two recent cases in which individuals improperly claimed the earned income tax credit, this paper explores … only parents with legal custody of their children should be entitled to receive the earned income tax credit. The other … state earned income tax credit.Both measures fail to reflect characteristics of the lives of the working poor, including a …

can be above or below the consumer price paid for ethanol. With a tax credit, we determine several key parameters … credit, and the value of corn returned to the market in the form of by-products. The outcome is further complicated if the … policy impacted the market. The implicit subsidy of the tax credit and mandates is often higher than the observed corn price …

This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A … tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting exporters like Brazil. If an import tariff is … imposed to offset the tax credit, world prices of ethanol decline by less than the tariff (unless oil prices are unaffected …

credit is a direct gasoline consumption subsidy with no effect on the ethanol price and therefore does not help either corn … or ethanol producers. To understand this, consider first the effects of each policy alone (a mandate and a tax credit …). Although market prices for ethanol increase under each policy, consumer fuel prices always decline with a tax credit and …