Brian4Liberty
07-03-2013, 02:04 PM
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/07/03/irs-pays-immigrants-billions-for-real-or-imagined-kids-overseas-79077
WASHINGTON – Children living overseas. Thousands of tax filers from the same addresses – many with no taxes owing, and of unknown legal status.
They’re all in line for refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
Watchdog reported last month that while paying out $70 million in staff bonuses and targeting conservative groups for audits, the IRS has issued billions of dollars in refund checks to illegal immigrants (aka “unauthorized workers”) under the most suspicious circumstances.
The biggest moneymaker is the Additional Child Tax Credit, ushered in as part of President Obama‘s stimulus package, and still going. At $1,000 per dependent, undocumented immigrants got checks totaling $4.2 billion in 2010, according to a government audit. The children didn’t even have to live in the U.S.
Nearly three-quarters of the recipients – who received refunds irrespective of any taxes owed – filed their claims using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number.
ITINs are typically held by persons who do not qualify for a Social Security number. The government won’t say how many ITIN holders are in this country illegally. But, as they say in Vegas, take the “over.”
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While some see a pattern of criminal racketeering, Pomerleau concludes that from a tax policy standpoint, the looting of the Treasury goes beyond lowly migrants. It is legally aided and abetted by bureaucrats and elected representatives sitting at the highest levels of our government.
“A certain amount of fraud by all people — immigrants or natives — is expected as the tax code becomes more complex,” he says.
More:
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/07/03/irs-pays-immigrants-billions-for-real-or-imagined-kids-overseas-79077
WASHINGTON – Children living overseas. Thousands of tax filers from the same addresses – many with no taxes owing, and of unknown legal status.
They’re all in line for refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
Watchdog reported last month that while paying out $70 million in staff bonuses and targeting conservative groups for audits, the IRS has issued billions of dollars in refund checks to illegal immigrants (aka “unauthorized workers”) under the most suspicious circumstances.
The biggest moneymaker is the Additional Child Tax Credit, ushered in as part of President Obama‘s stimulus package, and still going. At $1,000 per dependent, undocumented immigrants got checks totaling $4.2 billion in 2010, according to a government audit. The children didn’t even have to live in the U.S.
Nearly three-quarters of the recipients – who received refunds irrespective of any taxes owed – filed their claims using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number.
ITINs are typically held by persons who do not qualify for a Social Security number. The government won’t say how many ITIN holders are in this country illegally. But, as they say in Vegas, take the “over.”
...
While some see a pattern of criminal racketeering, Pomerleau concludes that from a tax policy standpoint, the looting of the Treasury goes beyond lowly migrants. It is legally aided and abetted by bureaucrats and elected representatives sitting at the highest levels of our government.
“A certain amount of fraud by all people — immigrants or natives — is expected as the tax code becomes more complex,” he says.
More:
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/07/03/irs-pays-immigrants-billions-for-real-or-imagined-kids-overseas-79077