A '''negative income tax''' is a plan for guaranteeing an [[income]] to the poor through some form of a reverse income tax. As a family's income increases, the [[government]]'s payments to the family would decrease. When the family's income reaches a threshold, such as the [[poverty]] level, then the government assistance would decline to zero.
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A '''negative income tax''' is a plan for guaranteeing an [[income]] to the poor through some form of a reverse income tax. As a family's income increases, the [[government]]'s payments to the family would decrease. When the family's income reaches a threshold, such as the [[poverty]] level, then the government assistance would decline to zero.<ref>http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/NegativeIncomeTax.html</ref>