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 ...
We don’t care they don’t belong here go back where you came from, or go live with a CNN journalist
Illegals are not “undocumented immigrants”.
Yeah - and if I rob a bank and they let me spend the money for a few years then come in and take the rest of it, it would hurt me too......except I’d be in jail instead of running free and howling about the meanies....
Superb piece of good news this morning; thanks for posting.
Here's a thought: if you live in wretched poverty or are barely able to make ends meet, don't have children that you can't afford. Since the people in question can't or won't figure this out, at the very least, put an end to policies that incentivize the indigent (especially immigrant indigents) to have yet more children.
With any luck, this tax policy will encourage millions of illegals squatting here to self-deport.
Policies like this one are the perfect response to the dishonest, hand-wringing idiots who say that we shouldn't even try deporting illegals because it's not logistically or financially feasible.
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