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Earned Income Tax Credit in Montana

The 2026 Earned Income Tax Credit table for Montana comes from IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-32. With no qualifying children, the maximum in that table is $664. The childless age window is flagged because the revenue procedure does not restate it. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

Who is inside the 2026 EITC table? Figures below use the 2026 poverty guideline of $33,000 for a household of four in Montana, unless the program uses its own dollar table.

Montana has no metro in the top 100 population ranking, so this page stays on statewide rules.

Montana taxes wages at rates up to 5.65%. Combined state and local sales tax is 0.0%. The ACS effective property tax rate is 0.69%.

A household of four with $48,000 of income is about 145 percent of the $33,000 poverty guideline and is likely eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit. Likely — a rough credit of about $3,770.

Limits behind the page

2026 poverty guideline in Montana
Household100%138%185%
1$15,960$22,025$29,526
2$21,640$29,863$40,034
3$27,320$37,702$50,542
4$33,000$45,540$61,050

An illustrative household

Two adults, ages 34 and 32, filing jointly, plus children ages 8 and 3. Gross income $48,000 a year, about 145 percent of the poverty guideline in Montana. They rent. Nobody is marked disabled or pregnant.

Earned Income Tax Credit

Likely eligible

Likely — a rough credit of about $3,770

  • 2 people are under 19, counted here as qualifying children. Students age 19 to 23 were not identified.
  • Using the annual income as if it were earned income, and a joint return, the 2026 table produces about $3,770. The credit ends at $65,899.
  • The maximum credit and the phase-out dollars are from Revenue Procedure 2025-32 for tax year 2026.
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Last checked: October 15, 2026

Sources

What changed
  • October 15, 2026. The benefit rules file was checked against the sources listed here.
  • January 15, 2026. HHS published the 2026 poverty guidelines in the Federal Register.

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