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More than a quarter of Mississippi tax returns claim the Earned Income Tax Credit

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: IRS Income by ZIP Code API – Tax Return Statistics 2011-2023

26.9% of Mississippi returns claimed the EITC in 2023, the highest share of any state; Louisiana was 24.2%, Georgia 20.8%.

MS26.9%LA24.2%GA20.8%AL20.4%AR20.2%TX19.5%
StateReturnsEITC returnsShare
MS1,194,990321,17026.9%
LA1,877,470454,44024.2%
GA4,768,860992,37020.8%
AL2,095,500426,61020.4%
AR1,253,630253,21020.2%
TX13,311,3202,600,26019.5%

Caveats

Sum of ZIP-level IRS counts; ZIPs with few returns are suppressed by the IRS.

Sources

Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below.

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Every number in this post comes from the IRS Income by ZIP Code API – Tax Return Statistics 2011-2023. $0.0008 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month.

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/irs-income-by-zip/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"zips": ["10001", "94105"], "maxItems": 20}'
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