Illegal Aliens Got $4.2 Billion in Refundable Tax Credits Last Year
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, September 2, 2011, 6:46 AM
It’s an Obama World.
Not only do illegal aliens not have to worry about being caught and deported – they even get billions in tax credits.
The Washington Post reported:
The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago.
Although undocumented workers are not eligible for federal benefits, the report released Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concludes that federal law is ambiguous on whether these workers qualify for a tax break based on earned income called the additional child tax credit.
Taxpayers can claim this credit to reduce what they owe in taxes, often getting refunds from the government. The vagueness of federal law may have contributed to the $4.2 billion in credits, the report said.
The IRS said it lacks the authority to disallow the claims.
Wage earners who do not have Social Security numbers and are not authorized to work in the United States can use what the IRS calls individual taxpayer identification numbers. Often these result in fraudulent claims on tax returns, auditors found.
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greg commented:
So that is what the long lines at the supermarket tax preparers cubicles were in February. Very little to no documentation was demonstrated to either fill out a tax return. Looked like a free money operation but until this report, I could not figure out the overwhelming interest in apparently filing a legitimate tax return. This is as bad as PIGFORD and the tax preparers are willingly complicit.
Andreas K. commented:
Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocumented immigrant’ is like calling a drug dealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist’
Finncrisp commented:
Just one more “positive” aspect of illegal immigration. Next we will have the white house dopes telling us this creates jobs. Good grief.
tommy mc donnell commented:
is being registered by acorn a requirement to get one of these refunds? thats 4.2 billion dollars taken out of the pay checks of american workers and the union leaders cheer. and the liberals can’t cut taxes. if fact they say we need tax increases.
AcadieAnne commented:
Holy $hit! They’re losing that much money on purpose? And they think everything would be ok as long as we raise taxes on “rich” people? Good thing the Demoncraps are the smart ones, or I’d be worried.
FurryGuy commented:
But the IRS can and does prosecute a legal citizen solely on suspicion they are lying on their tax return, no proof required.
When will it become a crime to be a citizen of the US?
Andreas K. commented:
FurryGuy, in some areas of the world it already is.
Gini commented:
I shall remember this when I finally get around to filing my taxes for last year.
Alana commented:
I’m sick of paying for these people.
And I’m sick of being treated as a criminal by the IRS and the U.S. government in general, simply for existing, working, and being honest.
lizzy84 commented:
http://www.rightspeak.net/2011/08/rick-perry-wanted-bi-national-health.html
Does Governor Perry still support an international health insurance program such as the one he laid out in this speech?
{Someone in the media—Please— Ask him this question in the up and coming Republican debate.}
#1AMERICAN commented:
what a sick fukken country this has become…revolution time is ahead
gee! commented:
Since old fool Warren Buffet is so eager to pay more taxes let’s have him write a check to pay for it.
Patty commented:
LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT.
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
A JOB,
A DRIVERS LICENSE,
SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
WELFARE,
FOOD STAMPS,
CREDIT CARDS,
SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
FREE EDUCATION,
FREE HEALTH CARE,
A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION
PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING ….FORWARD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY
IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, what are we going to do about this? Nothing, again, again and again? Or will someone step up to the plate and end this madness once and for all.
Kingslayor commented:
The democratic ideaology of come one, come all to the tax payers ball will be the reason we all will be in soup lines first, full blown rioting next, and finaly total civil unrest!!! So just who will be defined as the criminals at that point? The administration that caused the total collapse of the country or the population that has had enough government corruption??? You know kinda whats going on in the ARAB world!!! TAKE A HARD LOOK WHITE HOUSE!!!
chewydog commented:
Got to be total BS. The IRS are the ones issuing the tax id# in the first place. I looked at the application (W7), you check a box that you have a passport, etc., but I guess you don’t actually have to produce any documentation. Nice.
Patty commented:
We all are paying for this. Needlessly, to say all the other con cocked ideas of our government lack of responsibility to protect its citizens.
What are the government employees asked to do by this administration and others who are turning a blind eye. Seriously, they don’t know documented workers from those who are not. They sure know us when are taxes come due, now, don’t they.
We are Americans born and raised here, sure we love to have others come in legal and contribute to the economy but when LAW AND LAW is broken and Government gives the honest worker man’s money away to ILLEGALS, then it is time for asking for our fair share of money too. For every time this government has been irresponsible like this, I want my fair share. We may as well not be paying taxes. We shouldn’t have to pay. That would be as ridiculous as Government giving refunds to undocumented workers, now wouldn’t it.
No wonder American Citizens are outraged.
Louie_DaSmasher commented:
#8 touches upon the Grand Solution to all of this: Deny the Government your money.
Although it carries the risk of losing property and acquired wealth, so does participating in the current game where new rules are being re-written and enforced every other day; or current ones are being ignored for politcal reasons.
Truly “Going Galt” would force the beast to eat itself.
Patty commented:
#12
#1AMERICAN
I have been wondering the same thing.
gracepmc commented:
Finncrisp, I think the argument goes something like this — the dollars paid will be put back into the economy via purchases. Kind of like a mini stimulus, cash for clunkers,etc. That type of thing. And if you don’t believe me, just wait until Nancy Pelosi or Jay Carney or Warren Buffett tell you so.
squeaky commented:
“dollars paid will be put back into the economy via purchases. Kind of like a mini stimulus, cash for….” probably the underground economy.
Buffalobob commented:
#20,21 Actually most of the money will be sent back to Mexico as remittance. It is a bazillion dollar industry, and the Mexican government benefits enormously. The myth that illegals contribute more to the US economy than they take is the big lie La Raza, the progs and other hispanic activists want us to believe.
Joanne commented:
Madness.
Ladue Pundit commented:
This doesn’t include all the Muslims who get welfare for their other 3 wives and kids, in addition to their marriage deduction for the first wife.
Ladue Pundit commented:
Buffalobob commented:
#20,21 Actually most of the money will be sent back to Mexico as remittance.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$
WalMart has a separate counter for Wire Transfers. Go out to the Chesterfield Valley WalMart and see who’s lined up there. Muchos gracias, leeches.
Maah! commented:
This is designed to create fighting amongst us. I’ve known these hispanic families who take a chance on the great American dream like our forefathers did, who came and suffered austerities, hardships, abuse and pay way below what any ‘entitled’ American would lower him/herself to accept. They have families, they work hard, they tolerate us. Frankly i don’t believe this media propaganda–they risk being run out of the country or imprisioned for submitting information about themselves.
Three things, they helped us achieve what we could not have on our own..so many work in the breadbasket of American for pittance and are crippled by exposure to agro-chemicals–we never cared about that. Second, what they have to look forward to in the USA today is the same misery we are all facing, a police state, GMOs, joblessnes, vaccinations, chip implants, FEMA camps, radiation, chemtrails, etc. etc. Third, the people who are robbing us blind are the international bankers, the politicians and the hidden and dual-Israli citizens. So let’s get our priorities straight about who are the agressors and take care of each other.
ant commented:
Whatever you say Maaah, check out recent article on Moonbattery.com and the Examiner in Phoenix regarding LaRaza and MeCha arming themselves and advising other ‘undocumented’ to do the same for the ‘civil war’ is nigh approaching, through their racist spokesmen and their base-sites they are calling openly for armed aggression toward America for the Southwest, which “belongs to them!”. Are they the bankers you speak of? Take your la-la-land ‘nothing to see here’ BS somewhere else.
Kitty Hudson commented:
I WORK IN A TAX OFFICE & have for many years. We’re told about the contribution made by & that will be made by the illegals. When these people file income tax its not to pay taxes, it is to get a “refund”. They come in w/ a W2 stating they made say $20K – they do not have to claim the WIC, welfare, Lone Star card, rental assistance, free lunches, etc, etc. They fill out W4′s as single w/ 6 dependants so NO taxes are withheld from their paychecks. When filing they claim their 4 to 6 children AND they usually file HOH (supposedly no man in the house though there’s a new baby each year) & the husband usually files on his own claiming HOH w/ the other half of the kids in the same office at another desk w/ a different preparer. They both qualify for Earned Income Credit (should be called un-earned income credit). So they walk out w/ a “refund” of $8,000 to $10,000 – EACH. Then complain because its not enough & because they had to pay to file their taxes, this too they say should be free! They do not pay a dime in taxes, they take home more of your money & mine. They know every trick to rip us off for their free ride. These people literally (usually through a family member since they don’t speak English) ask me first thing “did I stay under the limit to qualify for EIC?” They can’t speak English but they all know what EIC is. Many hispanics who ARE citizens come in year after year w/ different children to claim (anchor babies born to illegals who let them claim their child & share the refund with the filer) when asked the child’s relationship they usually confer (in spanish) before they can give an answer. These people do NOT want to be citizens or pay taxes they just want more money!! It sickens me, but I am not allowed to question them. I am not even allowed to ask for SS cards anymore. Don’t be fooled when you hear someone say they want ID because they desire to “pay taxes” it is not true! If they come in w/ W-2′s based on stolen SS cards there is nothing a tax preparer can do, we are actually told to file them anyway & John Q Citizen can fight to get his money back later. We are not to question them, if we do we’re just racists! They also get angry with me because I don’t speak spanish. One guy yelled obscenities at me saying & I quote “I been here six years, why you no speak spanish yet?” I simply said, Au revoir! We are told by the admin & MSM that they pay taxes, don’t get benefits, etc – these are lies. They qualify for ALL of the benefits through their anchor babies & THAT is their intention. All this other “I’m so proud my children were born here – now they can learn English”, etc is a bunch of bull! Do you realize what amnesty would cost us in “refunds” alone? NO AMNESTY! And the 14th amendment needs to stop being misinterpreted to mean that these children have automatic citizenship! Their allegiance will always be with their parent’s home country, not the United States of America. Citizenship is supposed to be based on allegiance to the USA & only the USA! This has nothing to do with race it has nothing to do with “whitey” losing their hold on the U.S. this has to do with US citizens (black, white, hispanic, oriental, etc) who have worked all of their lives contributing to this great country & many DYING for this country yet having less rights than people who are INVADING & abusing it! So play the race card, listen to the lies & allow yourself to believe that these are poor innocent people just looking for a better life & you too will be their slaves! We are all their slaves; white, black, asian, young & old. They are trying to destroy all of regardless of our “color”. They are the racists! Numerous true hispanic citizens have told me that the illegals don’t want to be citizens & that when they do get ID’s they still work under the table so they don’t pay taxes! The American dream has become a nightmare for Americans! I am posting this same LONG post on several different related sites. Please feel free to share – these are facts that I am telling you first hand! I am sure that the liberals, illegals and ignorant who refuse to see the truth will dispute these facts, too! Let them, for some people that is what they need to be happy – remember for some – ignorance is bliss!
bg commented:
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The message is simple: educacion es
el futuro, y si se puede. – Rick Perry
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bg commented:
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re: #30 September 3, 2011 at 1:20 am bg
“Rural populations have a high proportion of uninsured people,
rising health care costs, and often experience lack of services.”
Texas 36th
[The second most populous state in the nation, Texas scores fairly average in most categories. But there are two areas where Texas places dead last. The Lone Star State has the lowest percentage of its 25 and older population with a high school diploma -- one in every five fails to obtain a high school education. Also, 23.8% of its population does not have health insurance, the worst rate in the country.]
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bg commented:
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‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’
[including the children of undocumented workers]
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Lucylu commented:
I have worked my entire life, I am now 63, have a student loan from 20 years ago, that I paid alot on, but things got bad in my life, so I couldn’t pay it well they take my federal taxes and threaten me all the time that they will take my Social Security…..yet illegal people get free schooling…..it’s just great living in the US if your from another country…..what a sad country we’ve become….
Brittanicus commented:
ILLEGAL ALIEN TAX RETURN FRAUD
The IRS reported it has issued 10.8 million ITINs (Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers), with a very few being used by celebrities for book signing, foreign investors and whatever other reason? So at the most must leave roughly 10 million illegal aliens as heads of household that have arrived in violation of the law, hired as an infringement of the law, and using ITINs to skirt the law, since the program began in 1976. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on Thursday released an account, unveiling that the Internal Revenue Service, returned $4.2 billion dollars in refundable tax credits 2010 to illegal aliens. Using IRS ITIN numbers so illegal aliens are paying into the US taxation system, but are collecting in ‘earned income child tax credits,’ most of this money back. An illegal alien cannot qualify for a legitimate Social Security number, to file income tax returns, so they use the ITIN number issued by the IRS.
This questionable program was intended to assuage that tax burden on the lowest American income earners, but in recent years has shown to be rife with fraud. President Obama’s stimulus program included tax cuts for low-income workers. Obama’s intention was, to put cash back into taxpayers’ hands, so they will spread it around to heighten the economy. But thanks to the (EITC) Earned Income Tax Credit, the majority of this “tax relief” will go to individuals who have never paid anything in taxes—and have already defrauded prior administrations and today’s government in massive sums each year—to Illegal aliens. .” The Inspector General said that the IRS should require those claiming the credit to prove that they are actually eligible to work here legally? However, IRS management “claims” that they have no legal power to request any proof with the inspection of individual income tax forms. A copy of the Inspector General’s report can be found here: http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011reports/201141061fr.pdf
An IRS audit showed that 72 percent of tax returns filed by those using (ITIN) taxpayer identification numbers and not a Social Security numbers claimed the child tax credit. Nearly all ITIN-based returns include W-2 forms that list Social Security numbers, belong to U.S. citizens, IRS data shows. Foreign Nationals use the stolen or fabricated Social Security numbers to gratify the employment necessities of businesses. In violation of the law, the ITIN numbers have also involved in using the IRS number as Identification to open bank accounts and obtain driver’s licenses and to vote.
Illegal aliens as well as Americans are cheating the rest of the taxpayers, with Mothers filing under their Maiden name for perhaps two children, then the Father filing for the same two children as a different tax return under his family name and both receiving child refund tax return dollars. Of course, as always this is just the tip of the iceberg on fraudulent returns.
Frosty Wooldridge wrote for News with Views:
“Your U.S. Congress participates in and supports one of THE most fraudulent taxpayer abuse schemes ever concocted within the Federal Government. It’s time the administration put its foot down rather than allow millions of unlawful immigrants to step onto American soil—while soaking billions out of the U.S. Treasury.
Since the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) became part of the income tax code in 1975, it has quietly become the largest cash transfer program in the United States. At a cost of more than $44 billion per year, EITC spending dwarfs that of the traditional welfare program—Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)—and food stamps combined. More than 23 million households currently receive the credit.
Edwin Rubenstein exposed one of the most dramatic tax frauds ever on the American taxpayer: “Defrauding the American taxpayer,” Volume 19, Number 3, spring 2009, Social Contract, “The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration – A Study in Fraud, Abuse, and Liberal Activism.”
“More than one in four immigrant households received the EITC in 2000—nearly twice the 13.2 percent rate of house-holds headed by Native Americans. And because immigrant households are larger via higher fertility, their EITC payments are larger than those received by native households.
“Bottom line: Immigrants accounted for about 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2008 but receive an estimated 26 percent of EITC benefits—about $12 billion.”
The most distressing aspect of EITC stems from unlawful immigrants tapping into the program on a massive scale. For example, in Greeley, Colorado this year, district attorney Buck Young raided a tax filing agency to find over 1,000 fraudulent returns by unlawful workers. While they paid little or nothing in taxes, they received hundreds of thousands in bogus returns, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. That same scam multiplies all over the country.
“Tax relief” goes to people who never paid a cent in taxes, and may have already defrauded the government of huge sums each year. “EITC scams are common, well-organized, and massive,” Rubenstein writes in the report. EITC ranks second out of 57 government programs in fraudulent payments.
“But enthusiasm for the credit has blinded policy makers to its problems. The EITC program is dominated by fraud. Year after year about one-third of all EITC returns are based on illegal multiple returns, phony Social Security numbers, or claims of non-existent children or spouses. A disproportionate share of illegal alien households receives the benefit.
“For most poor families, the tax credit check is the largest single sum of money they will receive during the year. Most receive it after filing income taxes. But some need the money immediately, and they can get it—for a price. A niche financial sector thrives by lending EITC recipient’s immediate cash in return for a hefty chunk of their credit check. The cost to the poor of these so-called Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) has been estimated at 6 percent of the entire EITC program.
The EITC is the most illegal-immigrant friendly of poverty programs; illegal immigrants constitute a far larger share of the poverty population now.
Implication: The EITC is a textbook case of unintended consequences. Our economic meltdown may be among them.”
There is only one cure for the corruption in federal agencies and that is joining the TEA PARTY. Thousands of fraudulent programs will be exposed and billions of dollars will be saved. This confronts the rot that has entered the Democratic and the Republican parties, and the astronomical deficit that America is suffering from. Read some unrevealed evidence at Judicial Watch, that is a legal non-profit, being There the opposite to the Communist backed ACLU; a panderer to the illegal alien invaders. In addition, NumbersUSA gives you in depth analysis of costs to taxpayers and insider news from Congress. Lastly, the controversial website of “American Patrol” gives you one-click Bridging editions to the nationwide media, where the truth prevails. It is no wonder that millions of illegal aliens can send $46 billion dollars a year to families, via foreign banks?
1. Remember illegal aliens do vote in federal elections, and we all need to contact our politicians, to either issue an official to scrutinize voter rolls, or specifically absentee ballots.
2. ISSUE a mandatory federal ID card, for all Americans.
3. Make illegal entry punishable as a felony, not a civil offence.
4. Build the real 2006 Double border Fence.
5. The TEA PARTY will not tolerate illegal immigration or any form of amnesty, including Sanctuary cities, dream acts or covert enactments by disguising Immigration Reform.
6. The TEA PARTY will support Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and other states against any retribution by the Democratic or Republican establishment.
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respect1 commented:
I feel sorry for you all, I sit back and watch these peons rape you all of your money , i watch this it is almost evened out, where you the hard working man earned your own money and they take half and give it away .this 4.2 billion should have went back to the earners not the losers .
every move you make is documented because you are legal and you pay and get nothing every move they make is illegal and they get the money. the only option you have is to write on these boards your complaints and the only people that read this is you and me. you need to do more then just complain here. you need to go illegal next time you see a line of illegals get in the line not only get in line but cut in front of the illegals. you deserve it more then they do.
respect1 commented:
i just had a thought , what if everyone in the USA just burnt up your drivers license ,birth certificate and social security card . I am thinking this is your only option