Governor Healy visits Lynn senior center to promote state tax cuts for seniors and families

Governor Healy visited the Lynn Senior Center on Tuesday to highlight recent state tax cuts she said will deliver relief to seniors, families with children and other taxpayers across Massachusetts and to urge residents to file to claim the credits. “We cut state taxes for the first time in over 20 years,” Healy said, adding that the administration has already returned “hundreds of millions of dollars back to people” and that more refunds are coming this year.

The governor’s visit paired praise for the Lynn Senior Center’s staff and volunteers with a rundown of the tax changes the administration has sponsored. Healy described a doubled senior tax credit known as the “senior circuit breaker,” raised child and family tax credits, expansions to the earned-income credit, an estate-tax change and a new low-income MBTA fare discount. “If you are 65 or older, you can get a tax credit to help…