HB 668 North Carolina House · 2025-2026 Session

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act.

HB 668 establishes a program to expand free tax preparation assistance in North Carolina through two key components. It allocates $1.38 million (including $790,000 nonrecurring and $610,000 recurring annually) to fund community colleges to create tax preparation courses and paid work-study opportunities for students, enabling them to become IRS-certified VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) preparers. Additionally, it appropriates $840,000 to the United Way of North Carolina to increase VITA locations, hire staff, provide multilingual resources, and offer financial education. The bill directly helps low-income North Carolinians (earning under $67,000 annually, with disabilities, or limited English proficiency) who qualify for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit but often miss claiming it, by expanding access to free tax filing services starting July 1, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Apr 1, 2025 Last action Apr 3, 2025

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Filed → Edition 1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill underwent significant formatting and structural changes during its legislative review process. The most substantive change is the addition of multiple sponsors to the bill, expanding from a single sponsor to four primary sponsors. The bill's content regarding the VITA tax preparer training program, funding amounts, and implementation requirements remained substantively unchanged, though the text was reorganized for the new edition format.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remained unchanged. The program still targets community colleges to establish VITA tax preparer training programs with the same funding structure and requirements.

TECHNICAL

Added three additional primary sponsors (Representatives Turner, Rubin, and Alston) to the bill, expanding the original single sponsor to four primary sponsors.

Reorganized the bill's formatting and numbering structure from the 'Filed' version to 'Edition 1' format, including changes to header information and bill identification numbers.

Removed draft identifiers and internal tracking numbers (DRH40369-NGa-34) that were present in the filed version but not in the final edition format.

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Apr 3, 2025

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Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

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Apr 1, 2025

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3 primary · 24 co-sponsors