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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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To: jazusamo

21 posted on 02/03/2015 6:29:23 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: jazusamo

wait, the amnsety crowd says illegal immigrants are hard workers who won’t be a burden on the taxayers and here is proof of the opposit.

also I’m guessing the majority of illegal immigrants don’t file taxes as they are paid in cash since its illegal for businesses to hire illegal aliens.


22 posted on 02/03/2015 6:32:43 PM PST by RginTN
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To: jazusamo

I read that headline and my response is “You want an 18% increase in funding from Congress for the IRS? F*** YOU!!!!! MAYBE YOUR PET ILLEGALS CAN COME UP WITH THE MONEY”


23 posted on 02/03/2015 6:34:03 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: EagleUSA

I posted a comment to a NY Times article sympathetic to Obama letting the illegals in and somehow my comment didn’t get posted amongst all the smug, oh so learned ivory tower, or ivory tower wannabe, opinions. What I said was: “Does anyone think Obama would be doing this if he thought they’d vote Republican?”

Far as I’m concerned this is the whole point - Obama sees Republicans as the enemy, no ISIS, not the Taliban, not the murdering illegals...just Republicans.


24 posted on 02/03/2015 6:44:10 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups)
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To: yarddog

No. It’s 10s of billions or more.


25 posted on 02/03/2015 6:52:01 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: CivilWarBrewing; Hardens Hollow; null and void; laplata; Gluteus Maximus; Salvavida; ...

CWII Spark Ping — CivilWarBrewing: “You want an 18% increase in funding from Congress for the IRS? F*** YOU!!!!! MAYBE YOUR PET ILLEGALS CAN COME UP WITH THE MONEY”
(I could not put it better myself.)


26 posted on 02/03/2015 6:53:11 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

The Gibsmedats Illegal Amnesty Credit. Nice.


27 posted on 02/03/2015 6:57:36 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: OneWingedShark

Genesis - Illegal Alien (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0

Its no fun being an illegal alien


28 posted on 02/03/2015 7:00:31 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: jazusamo

Why the hell bother being a citizen anymore?

Where can I go to declare myself an illegal alien?


29 posted on 02/03/2015 7:03:48 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Couldn’t agree more. The IRS should be going after the illegals, not shoveling our money to them.


30 posted on 02/03/2015 7:11:40 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: Nachum

Yep, 0bama wouldn’t make a..............well, you know the rest.


31 posted on 02/03/2015 7:14:18 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo

A musician waiting at a red light in Houston was randomly shot and killed by an illegal alien drug dealer who had been deported. What does his family get from the government that refused to protect him?


32 posted on 02/03/2015 7:29:49 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: jazusamo

Time to remind the Nazi Koskinen and his IRS gestapo that he and they won’t escape the American Nuremburg trials.


33 posted on 02/03/2015 7:30:54 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: jazusamo; stephenjohnbanker; Tennessee Nana; Liz; TADSLOS; EXCH54FE; GeronL; Travis McGee; ...
RE:”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”

Back EITC for illegals. We don't get that, but we do pay for it.

Where are the potential GOP candidates on this?

34 posted on 02/03/2015 7:33:31 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: House Atreides
Two or three years ago I never would have believed in this as a possibility.

Me either, but I damn sure do now.

35 posted on 02/03/2015 7:45:51 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: yarddog
At least in the hundreds of millions.

The numbers that I have seen the last few years have been way up in the Billions of dollars.

36 posted on 02/03/2015 7:50:54 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: txrefugee
What does his family get from the government that refused to protect him?

Scorn and ridicule.

37 posted on 02/03/2015 8:07:00 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: jazusamo

And of course we taxpayers will provide ‘free’ tax preparers to help get their money when the illegals used illicit SS numbers. FUBO


38 posted on 02/03/2015 9:56:47 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: jazusamo

You have noticed the same thing about the ‘rat’ as I see him. He must have some kind of government tenure or is a really all around butt man.


39 posted on 02/03/2015 10:24:46 PM PST by noinfringers2
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