This July 24, 2018, photo shows a portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form for 2018.Every December Congress meets to try to pass all the urgent items they didn’t manage to get done the rest of the year. Usually the list includes tax policy changes demanded by one well-heeled special interest or another. This year is no different.extending soon-to-expire business tax breaks...
In other words, a single mom working full-time at $12 an hour makes too little to qualify for the full CTC under its current rules. And it gets worse: While most of the kids excluded from the CTC are white, disproportionate numbers of them are from Utah’s communities of color, including an estimated 50,000 Latino children, comprising 29% of Utah’s Latino child population, as well as 6,000 Native American children, comprising 75% of Utah’s Native American children. This means that a tax credit that has incredible potential to reduce societal disparities is instead making them worse.
Utah’s social safety net is a joke on top of that. $12/hr can’t even lay rent anymore…
Every day in every way, Utah politicians showing their love for the unborn and the, uh, children (at least they kinda think about them) of Utah. Yeah, right.