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| | Negative Income Tax, by Jodie T. Allen: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | If income for NIT purposes is measured over a year, as in the positive tax system, families in great, but temporary, need may be denied benefits. |
 | | If the accounting period is shorter, say a month, as in the welfare system, and income reporting procedures are lax, potential costs and caseloads might be as much as 70 percent higher than those predicted by the annual income-based models used to estimate the costs of FAP and its early successors. |
 | | The income accounting and reporting analysisbacked up by an HEW administrative experiment in cooperation with the Denver welfare departmentalso drew attention to the fact that many negative tax participants cheat on income reports. |
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