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The Price of Paying Taxes: How Tax Preparation and Refund Loan Fees Erode the Benefits of the EITC

Earned Income Tax Credit, U.S. Poverty, Welfare, Taxes, Financial Services

Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Research Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
Anne Kim, Director, Work, Family and Community Project, Progressive Policy Institute
Benjamin Forman
Megan Burns

The Brookings Institution

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