Posted on 02/09/2017 2:51:42 PM PST by SkyPilot
Illegal immigrants need only one number to access billions of dollars in free taxpayer cash.
The Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) unlocks an exclusive gateway for non-citizens to receive monies meant for working, low-income Americans. The nine-digit code was created by bureaucrats in 1996 for foreigners who had to deal with the IRS. It allows people without a Social Security number, including those in the country illegally, to file taxes.
Its just a farce to say it was created to collect taxes, Robert Rector, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News. Its nothing but a welfare program designed for illegal immigrants. ITINS are for tourists or illegals. No ITIN filer is eligible to work in the United States.
The problem with ITIN, critics say, is gives non-citizens access to federal cash that they should not be entitled to receive. Once illegal immigrants file ITIN tax returns, they can apply for a Child Tax Credit which entitles them to $1,000 per child. Unlike the Earned Income Tax Credit, which requires a Social Security Number to qualify, the Child Tax Credit is a cash program that does not.
Critics say that makes it ripe for abuse.
Numerous investigations by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration have chronicled not only improper Child Tax Credit fraud and error payments ranging from $5.9 billion to $7.1 billion, but schemes such as nearly 24,000 ITIN payments going to the same address. The audit reports also found IRS management was not concerned with addressing questionable applications but interested only in the volume of applications that can be processed, regardless of whether they are fraudulent.
Another audit report examining ITIN usage found Child Tax Credit claims more than quadrupled in five years, from $924 million in 2005 to $4.2 billion in 2010.
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Solves the income tax refund ID theft problem, among other things.
Sky, your photo of the EITC is spot on. Those attending those “$149” tax courses have it drilled in their heads not only EITC but are the “other” family members they are claiming as a deduction truly a deduction. And if you screw up as a tax preparer your on the hook. An Enrolled Agent told me I know the 16,000 IRS agents added were not for Obamacare, but for the these two areas that are prone to abuse...
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AFFIDAVIT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO
IN A SWORN AFFIDAVIT TO A TEXAS COURT, MEXICO
SWORE THAT MEXICANS ON US SOIL ARE MEXICAN CITIZENS.
A sworn affidavit by Mexico/s Consul General to a Texas court asserts that Mexico/s official govt policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access our generous welfare system
The Mexican consul's sworn testimony asserts that: "My responsibilities in this position include protecting the rights and promoting the interests of my fellow Mexican nationals, and, that the main responsibility of consulates is to provide services, assistance, and protection to Mexican nationals abroad."
A footnote states that Mexican nationality is granted to children born abroad of a Mexican born parent. IOW, anchor babies born in the US retain parents Mexican nationality.
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Ergo, illegals have two governments looking after their interests.....our govt subsidizing them, and the Mexican govt making sure they collect.
Its time the US govt look after the interests of American citizens.
EITC cannot be cost effectively fixed. We would have to hire a hundred thousand more IRS agents. End EITC.
End EITC. Replace it with NO TAX on low income workers. No FICA, No SS, No Medicare. No Employer share. No employee share.
Employee now takes home big bucks with no change in minimum wage.
Employer has less overhead in reporting to the Feds. Most importantly, employers will structure their businesses to be productive, not to game the IRS regs (at least for this part).
Customers will have no increase in prices, unlike a raise in minimum wage.
A win for everyone except the unions, lobbyists and protestors.
Also, no welfare for any immigrant. Nobody should come here to get welfare. Not TANF, Not EBT, Not SNAP, Not WIC, Not Medicaid, Not Medicare, Not SSI. Not legals, not illegals, not refugees, not naturalized citizens.
Also cut back eligibility for SSI welfare of citizens.
Currently, welfare has more take home pay than work.
Cutting taxes increased take home pay to exceed welfare. So there is less reason to choose welfare over work as many now do.
Add free healthcare, free everything. These people see the USA as the World Powerball jackpot
Look for returns filed under Barack or Barry Anderson, Barack or Barry Soetero, or Harrison J. Bounel
Good idea.
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...It allows people without a Social Security number, including those in the country illegally, to file taxes...
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No, it allows illegal aliens, aided and abetted by our own govt (as they KNOWINGLY allow), to enslave the U.S. taxpayer.
2nd, NO Citizen should pay 0% in taxes, let alone $$ ‘back’ (which they NEVER earned). Not the ‘poor’, the sick, the old\retired...NOBODY should have ZERO skin in the cost of their govt and the services (il)legally provided.
Illegals are in this country illegally, put then in jail back in there home country. Shoot them if they come back to the USA.
Red herring. A deported illegal immigrant would have a pretty hard time collecting social benefits.
Deport them all. Fine and jail the criminals who employ them. Problem solved.
The FBI and Sessions should be dealing with this... NOT the IRS...
Good point.
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