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Now some lawmakers advocate cutting off the child tax credit for tax filers who lack of Social Security number. The move is unabashedly aimed at making life harder for undocumented workers, even taxpaying ones, specifically by punishing their children.
Currently, the CTC is one federal tax benefit that people can claim using an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) instead of a social security number. This effectively makes it available to undocumented workers—those who lack formal authorization.
Originally posted by jed001
Children of immigrants targeted by tax warfare in Congress
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Now some lawmakers advocate cutting off the child tax credit for tax filers who lack of Social Security number. The move is unabashedly aimed at making life harder for undocumented workers, even taxpaying ones, specifically by punishing their children.
Currently, the CTC is one federal tax benefit that people can claim using an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) instead of a social security number. This effectively makes it available to undocumented workers—those who lack formal authorization.
Undocumented workers is PC for illegal aliens and if you don't like how you are being treated move on
Originally posted by David9176
Are illegals filing taxes? What's going on here??? lol As far as I have known, if you are illegal then you aren't in the system at all...but this entire article goes against that.
But a 1997 law enacting a $500 per-child tax credit doesn't specifically exclude illegal immigrants from collecting. It was significantly expanded in 2001 to gradually reach $1,000, and rules were eased so that many more people could get it on a refundable basis. It was made more generous in 2009 so that more taxpayers could claim the credit or claim a larger amount. The expanded credit is slated to expire at the end of the year along with other Bush-era tax cuts and return to $500 per child, though it's commonly assumed that it will remain up to $1,000 per child.
"Although the law prohibits aliens residing without authorization in the United States from receiving most federal public benefits, an increasing number of these individuals are filing tax returns claiming this refundable credit," Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, said when the House debated the payroll tax cut measure in December. "Illegal immigrants bilked $4.2 billion from the U.S. taxpayers (in 2010). I think that it's time that we fixed it."
The situation has Democrats in a box. If they fight the GOP effort to cut back payments of the tax credit, they'll be favoring the delivery of refunds to people who not only don't owe income taxes but aren't supposed to be in the country in the first place.
What's more, closing the loophole would raise real money — an estimated $10 billion over 10 years under the approach favored by House Republicans.
The Treasury Department says that in the 2010 filing year more than $4 billion in child credit refunds went to 2.3 million people who filed tax returns but didn't have Social Security numbers proving they were citizens or legal workers. That's a four-fold increase over five years earlier.
Originally posted by kosmicjack
The simple fact is we have wasted trillions on war and violence and yet we complain about a fraction of that amount of money being spent on helping children.
It's an insane world.
I'm not saying I have the answers, I'm just saying we aren't even asking the right questions.
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
The problem comes in the fact that they are technically hurting American citizens. Frankly, my philosophy is that it's a pretty weak argument. These people are using their children as linchpins to stay in this country. Using a child is using a child, and it's a pretty poor way to parent.
Originally posted by Night Star
They say: "The move is unabashedly aimed at making life harder for undocumented workers, even taxpaying ones, specifically by punishing their children."
That is all we hear lately is how anything anti illegal hurts the children. They are trying to make people feel bad. These parents know full well all the risks they take when they get here, so if their children suffer in any way it is their own fault.