Earned Income Credit: Noncompliance Relative to Other Components of the Income Tax Gap

摘要

This letter responds to your request that we compare noncompliance and associated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) enforcement issues for Earned Income Credit (EIC) claimants and other taxpayer groups, such as the self-employed. Your question is a follow-up to our May 1997 testimony on EIC noncompliance before the House Committee on Ways and Means.