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Comptroller seeks email option to notify employers about state earned-income tax credit
Summary
The comptroller testified before the Ways and Means Committee in support of House Bill 603, which would allow the Office of the Comptroller to notify employers by email as well as U.S. mail about the state Earned Income Tax Credit to increase awareness and uptake.
The Office of the Comptroller urged the Ways and Means Committee on Feb. 6 to give it the option to email employers about the state Earned Income Tax Credit so employers can pass information to qualifying employees.
“This is a bill, that is pretty simple,” Comptroller Brooke Lierman told the committee, describing the measure as a step to modernize outreach. Lierman said the agency currently must mail notices to employers each year under an older code provision, at a recurring cost of about $150,000, and many mailed letters are…
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