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IRS offers extra tax refunds to illegal immigrants granted amnesty by Obama
The Washington Times ^ | February 3, 2015 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 02/03/2015 6:09:51 PM PST by jazusamo

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed Tuesday that illegal immigrants granted amnesty from deportation under President Obama’s new policies would be able to get extra refunds from the IRS for money they earned while working illegally, as long as they filed returns during those years.

Illegal immigrants who are granted the amnesty will be given official Social Security numbers, which means they can go back and amend up to three years of previous tax forms to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, potentially claiming billions of dollars in additional payments they were ineligible for before the amnesty.

Mr. Koskinen said they will have to have already filed returns for those back-years, and there’s a statute of limitations that governs how far they can go back, but said the agency’s current interpretation of laws would allow them to claim the EITC credit retroactively.

“This is the problem you get into,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who demanded a solution to the loophole. “The IRS’s interpretation of the EITC eligibility requirements undermines congressional policy for not rewarding those working illegally in the United States.”

The loophole stems from the way the IRS handles illegal immigrants. While the immigrants are not authorized to work in the U.S. legally, the IRS still wants to be paid taxes on the earnings of those who do work, and so it has issued millions of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, or ITINs, to illegal immigrants, enabling them to pay up.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; dsj02; earnedincome; eitc; illegals; irs; koskinen; obama; refunds; taxes
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Koskinen is a smug, smirking bureaucrat that is every bit as beholding to the _resident in the WH as Holder.
1 posted on 02/03/2015 6:09:51 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Just another IN YOUR FACE AMERICA from Obama. Building the DemocRat voting base in every way possible. Legally and ILLEGALLY.

Thank You AGAIN Congress!! America burns while YOU do nothing.


2 posted on 02/03/2015 6:13:08 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: jazusamo

I don’t recall the numbers but have read that illegals claim huge amounts of money from filing false earned income tax credits.

At least in the hundreds of millions.


3 posted on 02/03/2015 6:14:21 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: jazusamo

Obama, the president that will keep screwing us, via never read paragraphs buried in crap legislation, long after he is out of office


4 posted on 02/03/2015 6:14:36 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: jazusamo

My feelings are if you are here illegaly you not entitled to any benefits of citizenship and that includes EITC or any deductions.

You should be covered under workers comp or insurance but, zero bene’s...


5 posted on 02/03/2015 6:14:37 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: jazusamo

Eat your hearts out gringos!


6 posted on 02/03/2015 6:16:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Look! Snowflakes! We're all gonna die!)
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To: yarddog

Like you I’ve read that also, illegals are ripping us all off big time.


7 posted on 02/03/2015 6:16:18 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: Liz

Ping.


8 posted on 02/03/2015 6:16:49 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Cyclone59

A goverrnment of illegals, by illegals, and for illegals. Time for another revolution.


9 posted on 02/03/2015 6:16:50 PM PST by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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To: jazusamo

For acting as instruments of political terror, their budget was cut $1 billion.

Now the IRS budget is $12 BILLION.

ZERO people have gone to jail —zero.


10 posted on 02/03/2015 6:18:04 PM PST by gaijin
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11 posted on 02/03/2015 6:19:41 PM PST by gaijin
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To: jazusamo


12 posted on 02/03/2015 6:20:14 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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13 posted on 02/03/2015 6:20:30 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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14 posted on 02/03/2015 6:21:40 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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Great graphic of that turkey Koskinen.


15 posted on 02/03/2015 6:21:48 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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What a load of crap! These criminals have been getting friggin refunds all along with tax ID's from the IRS and we've been on the brown end of the stick all along, that's why this liberal bullsh*t about them contributing more than they take has been a lie all along. They take as much as they can from taxpayers and send it home(what they really consider home) to mexico or guatemala, honduras, whatever.
16 posted on 02/03/2015 6:23:06 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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17 posted on 02/03/2015 6:24:28 PM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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“Koskinen is a smug, smirking bureaucrat that is every bit as beholding to the _resident in the WH as Holder.”
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If anything, Obama has shown the Left that there would be no difficulty finding people to oppress the American people. IMHO people such Koskinen and Lois Lerner would not hesitate to manage the construction of concentration camps with incinerator ovens and they would not hesitate to order enemies of the Left to be placed in those camps to be disposed of. And there are no doubt tens of thousands of other American Leftists who would also be willing to be executioners of their American enemies.

Two or three years ago I never would have believed in this as a possibility.


18 posted on 02/03/2015 6:26:04 PM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: jazusamo

we have a foreign government running our country. and they are hostile towards us citizens.


19 posted on 02/03/2015 6:27:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: House Atreides

Amen to that!


20 posted on 02/03/2015 6:28:15 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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