Posted on 12/05/2017 3:35:13 PM PST by cotton1706
The tax bills passed by the House and the now the Senate include slightly more generous benefits for parents. Unless their children are undocumented immigrants.
Currently, non-citizens filing taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, are allowed to claim the child tax credit, which gives back up to $1,000 per child under age 17. In tax year 2013, according to the Government Accountability Office, 4.4 million ITIN filers claimed child tax credits worth $6 billion.
Under both the House and Senate versions of the Republican tax bill, ITIN filers — most of whom are undocumented — would need to provide Social Security numbers for each child in order to claim the refundable part of the credit, which kicks in when the credit exceeds the filer's total tax liability. The Senate version would require an Social Security number for the regular credit as well.
According to Samantha Vargas Poppe of the Latino advocacy group UnidosUS, the change would directly impact about a million undocumented children. But it could also hurt those born in the United States whose non-citizen siblings are no longer eligible for the credit. That income hit would impact the whole family.
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cue the world’s smallest violin.
It’s supposed to hurt. The idea is to encourage the lawbreaking foreigners to leave.
They aren’t entitled to ANY tax payer money. PERIOD.
Anchor baby blowback.
But, the anchor baby policy needs to be ended.
Good!
I guess they should have come here legally. I have no sympathy for their self inflicted hardships.
Lol! Who gives a flying ***? :) struggling criminals always break my heart.
What’s the downside????
WINNING!!!
WINNING!
They’re not undocumented, they’re illegal! Send them home, build the wall, problem solved.
Who thechell cares? Not moi.
CC
It is impossible to describe how little I care about these leeches and their problems.
Illegal?
Means right from the get go they are law breakers.
Round em ALL up and send em home.
What the....
Who....why....
Oh brother!
there. fixed it.
Good. Hurt them. And i wish we would continue hurting them.
“That income hit would impact the whole family”
Xin loi, minoy.
If they don’t like it, they can get their wet backs back across the river.
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