I think all legal tax payers should be eligible for some cash assistance.
Sure, illegal aliens don't pay taxes though. Beeeeeecause they are illegal.
I wasn't sure why, but they do legally pay taxes.
"In an effort to encourage these undocumented immigrants to file and pay their taxes, the IRS has long highlighted that it maintains a wall of separation from the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for immigration enforcement. "
We want your money whether you are here legally or not and whether you earned it legally or not,
" IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said in 2007. Even in an era of increased rhetoric about immigration enforcement,
federal tax law continues to prevent these taxpayers' information from being shared for immigration enforcement purposes.
Many undocumented immigrants have taken the IRS at its word: By 2015, more than
4 million people annually were using ITINs to pay $4.35 billion in net taxes.
In the midst of this economic crisis caused by the coronavirus, there is broad bipartisan support in Congress to provide payments to American taxpayers to offset the economic impact of the coronavirus.
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