Illegal Aliens Continue to Receive Billions in Tax Credit
Thanks to Harry Reid
May 24, 2012
If you paid taxes last year, you helped subsidize the income of illegal aliens.
Right now, the IRS doles out a $1000-per-kid Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) to families regardless of immigration status. The result? Illegal aliens receive billions of taxpayer dollars each year, even if they havent paid any income tax themselves. (See IRS Child Tax Credit Factsheet, 2012)
In fact, the Inspector General for the U.S. Treasury Department released a report last year revealing that illegal aliens annually received $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits, primarily through the ACTC. (See IG Report, July 2011) Illegal aliens claim the ACTC by using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN), which the IRS grants to them regardless of legal status.
Illegal Aliens Continue to Receive Billions in Tax Credit Thanks to Harry Reid
When I thought it couldn't get worse, it does. $4.2 billion? Is that what Obama and friends of illegal aliens call "illegal aliens contribution" to the economy? How many homeless Americans could this give homes to?