Earned Income Credit Worksheets

If you are a low- to middle-income wage earner or self-employed worker, you may be eligible for the Earned Income Credit (EIC). This is a refundable tax credit, so if your credit amount is higher than your tax bill, you can actually get the unused part of the credit as a payment from the government.

For 1999, the income limits to receive an EIC are $10,200 for workers age 25 to 64 with no qualifying children, $26,928 for workers of any age with one qualifying child, and $30,580 for workers with two or more qualifying children.

The EIC is based on a percentage of your income, but it is phased out as your income rises. To find out the actual amount of your EIC, you must complete the EIC worksheets provided below.

earned income credit worksheets

In order to use the worksheets, you will also need to use the EIC tables:

1999 earned income credit table page 1, range $1-$8,800

1999 earned income credit table page 2, range $8,800-$22,250

1999 earned income credit table page 3, range $22,250 and more

The files are in rich text format (RTF) that is suitable for use with most word processing programs used in the Windows environment.

For assistance in downloading a file, click here.

For more information, see our discussion of how the EIC is computed.