Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

WH Budget: Claiming Child Care Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit Now Require a..(SSN)
cnsnews.com ^ | May 24, 2017 | Melanie Arter

Posted on 05/25/2017 1:47:25 PM PDT by PROCON

Full Title: WH Budget: Claiming Child Care Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit Now Require a Social Security Number

(CNSNews.com) – The president’s budget requires that those receiving the child care tax credit and the earned income tax credit now must have a Social Security number to claim those tax credits.

“We talk about how to prioritize spending and how to look at programs that work and don't work. The childcare tax credit and the earned income tax credit. One of our proposals is that we are going to require you to have a Social Security number now to collect those,” White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Monday during an off-camera briefing.

“Why is that? Because I can ask you for your money, I think, in good faith and good conscience and say, look, I need to take some of your tax money and give it to this family who deserves the childcare tax credit, but I can't do it to give the earned income tax credit, which is designed to help folks who work, to give it to somebody who is in the country and working illegally," he said.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegals; ssn; taxcredits
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-76 next last
To: etcb

Yup, some jerk tried to get me to do his taxes with all of his dependents in Mexico. No Id numbers so the same names were on all of the returns. No, I did not do them.


41 posted on 05/25/2017 3:22:28 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (I am deplorable and proud of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: R_Kangel

IRS has been letting illegal aliens use ITINs instead of SS numbers.


42 posted on 05/25/2017 3:25:46 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

You don’t need a SSN to get a EIC? Don’t you need a SSN to file taxes?


43 posted on 05/25/2017 3:31:57 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: etcb

Correct. All they needed was a TIN. Taxpayer Identification number.


44 posted on 05/25/2017 3:40:28 PM PDT by sheana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: thinden
"U.S. citizens’ Social Security numbers are used when processing tax returns. Illegal immigrants, or people in the U.S. on work visas, use an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN.

Those ITINs are at the center of the problem, allowing suspected illegal immigrants to get billions of dollars in tax credits for children who don't live in America, according to the Treasury Inspector General."
http://www.wral.com/investigators-child-tax-credit-allows-fraudsters-a-chance-to-cheat/11697176/

45 posted on 05/25/2017 3:41:06 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

CHARLOTTE APARTMENT ADDRESS
NUMBER OF 1040 FORMS
TOTAL REFUNDS CLAIMED
2110 Arrowcreek Drive, Apt. 103 236 $1,100,648
2008 Arrowcreek Drive, Apt. 104 153 $713,110
9053 Arborgate Drive, Apt. C 206 $980,248
9053 Arborgate Drive, Apt. E 192 $947,557
7825 Royal Point Drive, Apt. 102 17 $62,621
TOTAL 804 $3,804,184

46 posted on 05/25/2017 3:43:14 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: DrDude

The IRS decided many years ago that illegals with an ITIN could file and claim the tax credits. No SSN’s required.
The rule you are talking about is for citizens. Fun huh?!?!


47 posted on 05/25/2017 3:43:33 PM PDT by sheana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Liz

Data Point Ping


48 posted on 05/25/2017 3:47:03 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: RightGeek
Wow, thanks for pointing out this story. Hadn't heard of it before. Truly amazing the massive fraud involved with foreigners here (illegally & legally) and their ITIN numbers.

Several billions in fraud. Could be used to pay for the wall.

49 posted on 05/25/2017 3:47:33 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: DrDude; ilovesarah2012
Form W-7
For use by individuals who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

There's an additional requirement for a taxpayer identification number (SSN or ITIN) to be valid for claiming the Child Tax Credit.
https://www.irs.gov/uac/is-my-child-a-qualifying-child-for-the-child-tax-credit

50 posted on 05/25/2017 3:53:08 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

They already do.


51 posted on 05/25/2017 4:03:40 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TalonDJ

A SSN is only require for them if we claim them as dependents and we don’t. They can get one when they start to work if they want to do that. They can also opt out and just get a taxpayer ID number as a SSN alternative.

We live in Wyoming and this is all very common around here.


52 posted on 05/25/2017 4:08:41 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Neidermeyer

“all persons on the tax return need a VALID SSN, if not they’ll just use 123-45-6789 or similar.”

I had those thoughts too. Illegals will either just make up a SS# or pay for a confirmed stolen identity.


53 posted on 05/25/2017 4:12:50 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: rxsid
Those are some seriously crowded apartments. ;-)

How hard would it be for the IRS to have a logic test in their software? Any claim beyond a reasonably possible number, say 15, would lead to further inquiries before the deduction is allowed.

54 posted on 05/25/2017 4:19:23 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: MeganC
None of my children have a Social Security number.

I can appreciate your thinking on this. I have some friends who wouldn't get SS numbers for their twelve children. The older ones all applied for them because it became a huge hassle not to have a SS number. While most application processes have alternatives to using a SS number, it almost always complicates the process tremendously.

55 posted on 05/25/2017 4:31:38 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Hmmm...the child tax credit requires that the child “Was a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or a U.S. resident alien”.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p972/ar02.html

You can claim an exemption for a child you support who is either a Mexican or Canadian, IIRC.


56 posted on 05/25/2017 4:38:21 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
I need to take some of your tax money and give it to this family who deserves the childcare tax credit,

huh ?
57 posted on 05/25/2017 5:25:20 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stylin19a
I need to take some of your tax money and give it to this family who deserves the childcare tax credit,

huh ?

If you read the article the WH spokesman was having a dialogue with a reporter and he used that as an example of what's been wrong with the system.

58 posted on 05/25/2017 6:20:19 PM PDT by PROCON
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012

You are right that SSNs have been required for years...for citizens.

The IRS has been issuing different numbers to illegals so they can use them to qualify without SSNs for them or their children. Illegals have even been able to claim children living in Mexico- that may not even exist.

In many cases illegals have used other people’s SSNs to file for tax credits as well. The IRS has been choosing to ignore Social Security when they tell them a number does not match.


59 posted on 05/25/2017 6:39:13 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Tammy8

And nobody cares?


60 posted on 05/25/2017 6:42:43 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-76 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson