athaureaux6
Level 8

Hi everybody, we had a good discussion yesterday about this EITC for 2020. I was looking at the 2019 tax software and they had the similar election to use the prior year earned income amount to figure the EITC but ONLY for federally declared disaster zones. It looks that because of the virus Pres. Trump made the change for TY 2020 for everybody when he signed the TAX Certainty and Disaster TAX relief ACT on December 27 th. I get that but it is still not clear to me that with 0 earned income you still can use the 2019 earned income. 

The EITC is the most important credit and there is no information about this anywhere. Even all the online tools including the IRS tax assistant says you need earned income to claim the credit but we seemed to agree yesterday that you do not need earned income this year. What is the truth, and if it is what we agreed, why there is no information about it. 

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