By Jimmy DeButts
Atlanta Business Chronicle
April 30, 2010
Georgia’s tax laws are among the nation’s harshest on the working poor, according to a new report.
Georgia is one of five states that tax families of three or four in severe poverty, meaning those earning less than three-quarters of the federal poverty line. That income level in 2009 was $12,827 for a family of three and $16,460 for a family of four, according to a report released on April 28 by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Alabama, Illinois, Montana and Ohio join Georgia in its tax treatment of low-income families.
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