(Accounting Today) - The Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing to increase the length of the Schedule EIC for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, requiring taxpayers to include much the same information on self-prepared returns that paid tax preparers are required to ask them on the EITC due diligence checklist. http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/tax-practice/senate-proposes-to-increase-eitc-requirements-75628-1.html