Posted on 05/19/2007 3:54:46 AM PDT by Jim Noble
The Bush administration insisted on a little-noticed change in the bipartisan Senate immigration bill that would enable 12 million undocumented residents to avoid paying back taxes or associated fines to the Internal Revenue Service, officials said.
An independent analyst estimated the decision could cost the IRS tens of billions of dollars.
A provision requiring payment of back taxes had been in the initial version of a bill proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat. But the administration called for the provision to be removed due to concern that it would be too difficult to figure out which illegal immigrants owed back taxes...
"It is important that the reformed immigration system is workable and cost efficient," Stanzel said. "Determining the past tax liability would have been very difficult and costly and extremely time consuming."...
Laura Capps, a spokeswoman for Kennedy, said a provision for requiring back taxes was in Kennedy's original bill and that Chertoff called for it to be removed. "Chertoff thought it would be too challenging to accurately determine the amount of an applicant's back taxes," she said.
Administration officials said many illegal immigrants do not get paychecks that can be audited, making it difficult to determine tax liability.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Gawd, what a bunch of Orwellian doublespeak. How can getting billions in back taxes BE COSTLY? THE COLLECTED TAXES WOULD MORE THAN PAY FOR THE EFFORT!
So tell me what the party is doing that is viable now. We have an amnesty shill as head of the RNC.
.....like it's EASY FOR THE REST OF US to determine OUR tax liability?
Gee, this last year it only took me about 25 hours to prepare the documentation for my tax preparer, then 2 hours at H&R Block, and then about $500 to pay H&R Block to do my taxes.
Don't even get me started about how angry I was about my 2005 taxes, when I got a letter from the IRS telling me that I owed them about $5,000 in taxes, interest, and penalties, because I under-reported my income. It was because THEY entered a $1,300 1099 as $13,000! Add another hour of my time to get that straightened out!
Mark
Gee, maybe his handpicked amnesty shill is head of the RNC?
This is the 2006 bill, it is a placeholder until the real bill is completed.
I think that is the task of the day. I would love to get it on here for FReepers to break it down. I'm looking.
The criminals were elected... And now they're insuring that they KEEP what they've stolen through their election...
Mark
Well, I guess that one more movie I've been meaning to see that I don't need to see now! :-)
Mark
I think Texas should seceed!
According to news reports, they are still working on it. I bet they wait until after the Sunday morning talk shows to release it. Their shills will then be able to go on these shows and be the sole authorities on what is in it. Gamesmanship.
I understand. It does have a May / 07 date on it, so that is why I was confused. Thanks
The biggest problem presented by this bill is not amnesty itself - it's the idea that the rule of law is null and void in this nation.
What ever you do, don't ruin the ending of "Titanic" for me, OK?
Mark
It is a placeholder that will be substituted by the real bill.
GWB is the Jimmy Carter of the GOP.
of COURSE she’s living the American dream .. she married you, didn’t she ?
You know what...you can take that rabid Bush hater garbage and dish it somewhere else. Don't marginalize how people feel...especially when it is BUSH and a big majority of our GOP congresscritters who are turning us into rabid...foaming at the mouth...BUSH haters! Why? Because they keep telling us to bend over and grab hooch. It won't hurt...it ain't conservative...it's not what you elected us for...and we know we are selling you down the river and destroying the party (and we have another RINO lined up for you kool-aid drinkers...so take a swig...if you don't...HILLARY might be elected!).
So...you know what...if Bush has hatred coming from the right it is self inflicted and WELL DESERVED. I voted TWICE for him for governor...and TWICE for president because I believed in him. I didn't move...he did. That is enough to receive my distain.
So you've actually read all 700+ pages of the bill then?
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God Bless your wife...
I’m a naturalized American citizen who came here as an immigrant also..
I know how she feels...
It’s like the proud day of my naturalization ceremony was a farse and the document not worth anything...
My late Grandfather came to the US legally in the early 1930s from Poland, and back in Poland, he never knew his "birthday." When he was naturalized (which he always said was his proudest moment), he was so proud, he decided to take February 22, George Washington's birthday, as his own, to celebrate for the rest of his life.
Mark
Johnnies feverishly searching the Web for a source to back up his or her claim, all the while seething over comments toward a President gone bad.
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