ThomasM125
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Deductions & credits

Form 3514 refers to the California Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC). You are being asked if your EIC was ever disallowed on your federal return. In other words, did you ever enter an EIC on your federal return and then later have it denied by the IRS?

 

The second question is asking if you ever had your state EIC denied. 

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