Roy Cooper: “We are not trying to stop enforcement of EITC. We are trying to do it in a fair and balanced way so that the IRS can go…”

“We are not trying to stop enforcement of EITC. We are trying to do it in a fair and balanced way so that the IRS can go after where the big money is as well as where the small money is. And the gentleman is unfair as well because it is not just a little bit of paperwork. They have to find folks who will certify that their own children have been living with them for 6 months, and they disqualify relatives and neighbors and building managers. So who else can they turn to, people who do not know them? And under penalty of perjury, they want an absentee landlord to sign a piece of paper saying someone's kids have been living with them? Why not a simpler approach? Why not say, in the situation of a divorce or legal separation, why not go to the court and find out who has custody of the children and get a certificate there and make that work? That would be a simple, fair way to do it. But, no, the IRS has not chosen that path. There are other simpler ways of solving this problem, and that is all that we ask. Even the IRS acknowledges that. That is why they have, on their own initiative, delayed and downsized their proposed program.”