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Table 1. Total Number of Tax Returns, Percentage of Federal Tax
Returns Claiming an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and Average
EITC by State, Tax Year 2003Number of Percentage of Average
Federal Tax Federal Tax Returns EITCa
Returns Claiming the EITC
Total - All States 129,810,122 17.01% $1,772.48
Alabama 1,883,765 25.73 2,023.52
Alaska 343,032 11.29 1,494.50
Arizona 2,285,323 17.49 1,776.14
Arkansas 1,121,518 24.81 1,899.58
California 15,171,832 16.54 1,745.90
Colorado 2,079,044 12.85 1,593.07
Connecticut 1,653,789 10.15 1,564.88
Delaware 388,288 14.66 1,703.60
District of Columbia 275,645 18.77 1,681.55
Florida 7,849,542 20.08 1,781.61
Georgia 3,709,312 22.79 1,944.01
Hawaii 591,084 14.48 1,552.74
Idaho 577,926 17.52 1,694.88
Illinois 5,722,755 14.94 1,754.98
Indiana 2,816,535 15.12 1,686.71
Iowa 1,324,876 13.01 1,571.09
Kansas 1,218,580 14.56 1,664.30
Kentucky 1,740,856 19.68 1,718.03
Louisiana 1,879,651 28.45 2,085.93
Maine 615,092 14.13 1,556.39
Maryland 2,601,859 13.44 1,676.38
Massachusetts 3,051,697 10.09 1,521.31
Michigan 4,546,347 14.18 1,708.15
Minnesota 2,383,813 10.85 1,534.55
Mississippi 1,169,646 31.87 2,084.70
Missouri 2,563,895 17.01 1,720.42
Montana 433,522 17.18 1,624.16
Nebraska 802,709 13.75 1,641.20
Nevada 1,044,025 15.33 1,653.64
New Hampshire 634,654 9.78 1,498.11
New Jersey 4,082,108 12.14 1,691.43
New Mexico 813,731 24.40 1,795.38
New York 8,589,932 17.42 1,738.15
North Carolina 3,680,813 20.40 1,829.85
North Dakota 302,426 13.18 1,584.97Ohio 5,444,137 14.45 1,708.71
Oklahoma 1,460,943 21.47 1,809.32
Oregon 1,571,871 14.32 1,601.93
Pennsylvania 5,771,764 13.40 1,622.54
Rhode Island 498,063 13.13 1,645.88
South Carolina 1,804,803 23.47 1,864.24
South Dakota 357,449 15.51 1,627.85
Tennessee 2,565,045 21.31 1,806.61
Texas 9,298,799 23.25 1,967.75
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