Earned Income Tax Credit Eligibility Estimator
Estimate 2026 EITC eligibility and credit using earned income, AGI, filing status and qualifying children.
Official rules and scope
2026 rules reviewed September 11, 2026. Eligibility questions are deliberately shown instead of inferred from income alone.
How the 2026 EITC estimate works
The estimator uses the earned-income amounts, maximum credits, phaseout thresholds and $12,200 investment-income limit published in IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-32. It uses the larger of earned income or AGI for the phaseout and supports zero through three-or-more qualifying children.
The IRS credit table rounds by income ranges, so a filed-return amount can differ slightly from this continuous statutory-curve estimate. Special military, clergy, disability, combat-pay and qualifying-child tie-breaker rules are outside scope.