Alameda County
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Campaign

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a refundable federal income tax credit for low-income working individuals and families. Census data show that the EITC lifts more children out of poverty than any other single program or category of programs.*

Urban Strategies Council serves as a Coordinating Agency for the Alameda County EITC Campaign. The Campaign sponsors 24 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites across Alameda County and supports asset development strategies linked to the EITC campaign. The Council serves on the Steering Committee of the Campaign and is responsible for the data collection component. Additionally, we provide programmatic support and strategic planning for the campaign, concentrating on asset development strategies (see Alameda County CAN) in particular.

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Urban Strategies Council has released several reports on the 2007 Alameda County Earn It! Keep It! Save It! Campaign. The reports include:

• Alameda County Campaign Report (Detailed report ~ 60 pages, 500Kb PDF)
• Alameda County At-A-Glance report (summary report, 4MB PDF)
• Lower San Antonio At-A-Glance Report (4MB PDF)
• Oakland At-A-Glance Report (4MB PDF)

Two detailed data reports are available for the Lower San Antonio neighborhood:

• LSA Site Data Report (37KB PDF)
• LSA Zip Code Report (24KB PDF)

Summary reports and detailed data reports are available for every site in the campaign, to obtain these please contact the site coordinators directly.

Free Tax Preparation for Bay Area residents with incomes under $42,000:

• For more information on the free tax preparation services please visit www.earnitkeepitsaveit.org or click here to download an Alameda County VITA flyer (PDF, 159 KB).

Information about Predatory Tax Preparation:

• To see a map of VITA sites and for-profit tax preparers, click here
• For information on predatory tax preparation services visit the California Reinvestment Coalition

EITC Resources:

• To learn more about the EITC, see this publication by the *Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) EITC Assistant

For more information, please call or email Lisa Forti, lisaf(at)urbanstrategies.org