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The Boring Newsletter, 4/13/2025

Post author By Stephanie
Post date April 13, 2025

Hi Friendos, March 29, 2025 was the 50th anniversary of the Earned Income Tax Credit (“EITC”). I doubt any of you reading this have ever qualified for or received this tax credit. Today I want to talk about some of the specific rules around the EITC that got me thinking about a smoldering talk by […]

Tags administrative burden, AEA, American Economic Association, earned income tax credit, economic orthodoxy, EITC, Joan Robinson, Milton Friedman, negative income tax

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The Boring Newsletter, 8/20/2023

Post author By Stephanie
Post date August 20, 2023

Anatomy of a 1040, Class 10 Hi Friendos, Welcome to our tenth and final summer school class for Anatomy of a 1040! Today’s lesson is about the actual payment or refund that goes along with filing a 1040. Here’s an overview of everything we’ve covered this summer: So the first 9 lessons were about page […]

Tags EITC, estimated payments, Form 1040, IP PIN, non-refundable credit, refund, refundable credit, total tax, what you owe