Posted on 04/16/2025 10:06:22 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan filed his taxes last year. But Ivan, 54, a Massachusetts resident who hails from Colombia, is worried a recent agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement means he is in danger of being deported for doing what he believed was the right thing.
And if taxpayers like Ivan decide not to file taxes because the IRS has said it will share certain tax information filed by undocumented immigrants with ICE, it could cumulatively eliminate billions in tax revenue and create “a massive problem” for citizens and immigrants alike, experts said.
Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan tax policy organization. About $59.4 billion of that went to the federal government and $37.3 billion to state and local governments, according to the group’s analysis. It found that even a 10% decrease in the number of undocumented immigrants filing their taxes would mean a decrease of $9.5 billion a year in tax revenue.
“The biggest issue from a revenue standpoint is that opening up tax records for immigration enforcement is going to reduce tax compliance of immigrants, whether undocumented or not, and that will have a significant impact on tax revenue,” said Tom Bowman, a policy counsel with the Center for Democracy and Technology’s security and surveillance project.
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If these migrants are willing to be illegally undocumented they are also willing to evade taxation.
The left imagines all these poor illegals hunkered down doing their taxes. They’re Americans, just like you and me after all.
You forgot to mention that they were purposely allowed across our border to become new voters for the DemonKKK Party. I might also add, that they will be permanent voters that will keep the DemonKKKrats in power for decades. This is why they are mounting a case where we will need to litigate each illegal person we want to deport. Can you imagine the costs for that one?
We will save billions from “ earned income tax credit”
Not if each one of these are guaranteed DemonKKKrat voters. And I guarantee they will be DemonKKKrat voters bought by the DemonKKKrat Party with our tax money.
We need to see the big picture.
They get WAY MORE MONEY than they could ever pay in!!!
As opposed to the hundreds of billions spent on them to educate, feed and treat them for FREE.
Cry me a river...
Oh, yeah, like illegals pay taxes; more likely file earned income returns.
“Where did he get the SSN from to file his taxes?”
That was my first question also but he could use an ITIN. These are issued by the IRS for tax filing only. Now my question is which number did he use to file? If it was a SSID, where/when did he get it?
As for sweating deportation, good. An ITIN does not confer citizenship.
where do these nimrods get thier info from? Oh that’s right THE EXPERTS
Not even close to what it costs us to let them stay.
On the other hand...
It will also result in an instant $25 billion budget savings from fraudulent Earned Income Tax Credits and Medicaid.
8.5 billion out of a multi trillion dollars of taxes, and how much do these “immigrants “ cost the American tax payers?
And don’t forget the most important talking points who will
Pick our strawberries and mow our lawns…..😎
BS Many put 40 dependents on their w-4s and never have a dime withheld so they have no need to file
How are these illegals filing taxes if they legally can’t get a job?
B.S.
$10B a year loss? That’s insignificant at best considering the fraud waste and abuse being saved. Subtract $10B from that and it’s still a large positive win.
Who cares as long as there are withholdings?
Most illegals only "pay" taxes for the child income tax credit and other welfare. They are almost all a net negative. Don't be fooled by leftist propaganda.
What..wait...did I read that right?
“... undocumented immigrants filing their taxes...”
No comment necessary but you owe me a new monitor and keyboard after I sprayed coffee all over them ala Danny Thomas.
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