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.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
They either have or can get their documents - but, they just happen to not be the right documents. Undocumented - pffft. Illegal - yes. Law breakers - for sure. Invaders - certainly some.
tearing up here...sniff, sniff... /s
Let me be clear, I could not be happier.
Oh, the cruelty of it all! I can’t bear to think about how these law breakers will be deprived of one of their scams.
CNN = CRAP NOT NEWS
what is you dont understand about ILLEGAL ALIENS, we dont owe them jackcheet man.
MAGA!
I second that.
Sickening.
Great news.
The poor babies! My heart bleeds for them. /sarc.
Exactly! Good grief, thought the article might be satire but no...
OK, I just found something to like in these ghastly bills which targets the hardest working of us.
I was promised, as a small business owner, a YUGE tax cut. Looks like an increase.
Screw it all. I don’t have kids so your progeny can pay for the deficit. It won’t cost me any more than it has since my earnings started to climb beyond the 3rd quintile.
You are all welcome.
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If the tax bill causes any grief to any ILLEGAL INVADERS, or SUPPOSED MOHAMMEDAN OCCUPIERS, it is so much the better for my country.
Ha ha ha
Women, children and minorities hardest hit.
Well, you are undocumented so , I don’t care....
shyts given.. none..
Good and should.
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