Earned Income Tax Credit for instance. Not a bad refund considering what they "didn't" pay.
EITC is a grievous mistake, Advanced EITC adds insult to injury...in case no one knows, Advanced EITC is where a mooch with a job and a paycheck gets EITC each year, he/she can apply for “Advanced” EITC where the EMPLOYER has to dole out the expected annual payment adjust over each paycheck. The insult? The employer has to foot the cost of this until he files his own taxes each year. DISGUSTING
Earned Income Tax Credit for instance. Not a bad refund considering what they “didn’t” pay.””
I used to be a payroll supervisor.
I processed many W-4 forms that showed a young male declaring that he had 9 exemptions-—declaring that he had 9 dependents.
At the pay he would be making, he would not pay a dime in state or Fed INCOME taxes, only Fica/Medicare/SDI deductions.
Many of these persons were most likely illegal invaders to this country, as they were farm workers & this was 1977—when we didn’t seem to think about illegals very much.
I don’t know if they stayed here long enough to even file an income tax return, but I often got a “NON-MATCH’ report from SS Admin 18 months later that stated that ‘Jose Garcia’s name didn’t match his reported Social Security number. ‘Jose” was long gone. They had been trained to NOT stay at a ranch or farm longer than about 8 months.
Identity theft was busy, even then.
Today, the illegals & those who actually do have papers to be here are not paying any deductions in income taxes & they have learned that they can file an income tax return & actually get the ‘Earned Income Credit!!!
This has been challenged at the IRS level by a number of Congress persons, only to find out that there is NO LAW preventing ILLEGALS from getting the cash refund payout.
There have been other threads here on FR in the past, showing how many millions of dollars have flowed into the pockets of these person using such tactics. That money is NOT taxable, either.