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March 9, 2021
An expansion of Maryland s Earned Income Tax Credit passed quietly into law when Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) allowed the bill to take effect without his signature.
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Senate Bill 218 extends the tax credit to people who pay taxes using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) for the 2020, 2021 and 2022 tax years. That group of taxpayers, which includes undocumented immigrants, certain survivors of domestic violence and student-visa holders, have been excluded from previous state and federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill passed the General Assembly largely along partisan lines late last month, with most Democratic lawmakers in favor and most Republican lawmakers opposed.
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After a lengthy partisan debate on the Senate floor Wednesday, Democratic senators moved forward with their proposal to provide relief for taxpayers who were left out of a recent statewide relief effort.
Because the recently passed RELIEF Act relied on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which requires a Social Security number, as a vehicle to get relief to low-income Marylanders, advocates and Democratic lawmakers worried that people who file taxes using individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN) were left out.