Goldin, Jacob; Homonoff, Tatiana; Javaid, Rizwan; … - 2021
Governments and non-profits devote substantial resources to increasing take-up of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC …) through educational outreach. We study a different approach: policies that encourage tax filing. In a large field experiment …, we find that IRS letters about free tax preparation modestly increased filing, with a large share of the new filers …