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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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.
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”
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.
No. It’s 10s of billions or more.
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.)
The Gibsmedats Illegal Amnesty Credit. Nice.
Genesis - Illegal Alien (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0
Its no fun being an illegal alien
Why the hell bother being a citizen anymore?
Where can I go to declare myself an illegal alien?
Couldn’t agree more. The IRS should be going after the illegals, not shoveling our money to them.
Yep, 0bama wouldn’t make a..............well, you know the rest.
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?
Time to remind the Nazi Koskinen and his IRS gestapo that he and they won’t escape the American Nuremburg trials.
Back EITC for illegals. We don't get that, but we do pay for it.
Where are the potential GOP candidates on this?
Me either, but I damn sure do now.
The numbers that I have seen the last few years have been way up in the Billions of dollars.
Scorn and ridicule.
And of course we taxpayers will provide ‘free’ tax preparers to help get their money when the illegals used illicit SS numbers. FUBO
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.
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