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.
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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.
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.
Obama, the president that will keep screwing us, via never read paragraphs buried in crap legislation, long after he is out of office
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...
Eat your hearts out gringos!
Like you I’ve read that also, illegals are ripping us all off big time.
Ping.
A goverrnment of illegals, by illegals, and for illegals. Time for another revolution.
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.
Great graphic of that turkey Koskinen.
“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.
we have a foreign government running our country. and they are hostile towards us citizens.
Amen to that!
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