Posted on 06/11/2015 11:51:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Illegal immigrants granted amnesty under President Barack Obama's immigration reform will be able to claim back tax refunds from years in which they never filed taxes, the IRS said.
According to the Washington Times, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress in a letter the roughly 5 million illegal immigrants who could be granted amnesty under Obama's plan will be eligible to take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
"To clarify my earlier comments on EITC, not only can an individual amend a prior year return to claim EITC, but an individual who did not file a prior year return may file a return and claim EITC (subject to refund limitations under section 6511 of the Internal Revenue Code)," Koskinen said in written responses to a request from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Grassley released Koskinen's comments Wednesday.
Despite the policy, Koskinen doesn't think many illegal immigrants will file for back tax returns because they'll have to produce official documentation that shows how much they earned in a given year.
"Filers would have to reconstruct earnings and other records for years when they were not able to work on the books," Koskinen said.
Under Obama's immigration orders, which are currently stuck on hold in the court system as judges determine whether they are legal as defined by the Constitution, would provide work permits to those who receive amnesty. Those permits would then be used to create a Social Security number.
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Why stop there? Pay them what they would have earned had they been living here all this time. also, please include “40 acres and a mule”.
They’re just inviting mass lawlessness. Anarchy.
Does the IRS make tax code or is it congress? Would think congress because they get kick backs for making tax laws, don’t they? Isn’t that what cronies are for?
Can we stop calling government handouts refunds already?
in the Obamanation, the Executive Branch is everything. The legislative branch is a quaint anachronism from the days of the Old Republic.
"IRS: Illegals Granted Amnesty Can File For Back Tax Refunds"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, but also consider the following.
The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that only the elected members Congress, not non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the IRS, have the legislative / regulatory power to make such decisions about illegals, Congress actually not having the constitutional authority to make such decisions in the case of illegals.
And consider that if the ill-conceived 17th Amendment had not been ratified, then state lawmakers would probably be spurring the Senate to work with the House to put a stop to Obama’s blatant ignoring of the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators along with it.
Of course they are entitled the sack by the invaders continues at an ever accelerating pace. Soon they will simply enter your home and take what they need, protest and your neighbors will run for cover and you will die.
Insanity.
Don’t forget to vote for Jebster for more of this.....
And, we will borrow money from our children, and our grandchildren to pay them?
Well, isn’t that special.
Exactly. How can you get a “refund” when you never paid in anything?
Obama has made it to where everyone in this country to include foreign students can get free healthcare plus you name it. Illegals get every freebee citizens do.
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