Illegals raking in huge, on tax handouts.

[Danno 1,228]

I mis-typed my wifes SSN and within hours of e-filing it was rejected.

Illegals are making up numbers to claim kids on the "give away" program called Earned income tax credits. This can easily amount to thousands of dollars per household. ($4,824.)

The kicker is, the IRS is apparently not even checking.

But not to fret.... all this tax payer money will help stimulate the economy (in Mexico anyway).

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Illegal immigrants cashing in on federal tax credits, study shows.

By: Kevin Mooney

Examiner Staff Writer/Commentary

04/16/09 5:19 AM

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/...--43088487.html

Large numbers of illegal immigrants file tax returns using phony Social Security numbers to cash in on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, thanks to lax government management, according to the author of a new study.

“Technically, only people authorized to work in the U.S. are eligible for the credit, you need a valid Social security number,” said Ed Rubenstein, a financial analyst and economist, speaking at a news conference Tuesday at the National Press Club.

“But identity theft, stolen Social Security numbers, and other scams effectively nullify the restriction. As a result, illegal aliens actually receive the EITC at even greater rates than legal immigrants,” Rubenstein said.

The IRS makes little or no effort to verify the authenticity of Social Security numbers, or existence of dependant children, Rubenstein said.

This makes it possible for illegal immigrants to claim children still living in Mexico as dependents and for parents living illegally in the U.S. to file separate returns claiming the same children as dependents under the EITC, Rubenstein said.

The EITC was created to boost work incentives for poor families with children. Childless households received a maximum $438 payment in 2008, while the maximum available to families with two or more children was $4,824.

“From a distance, the EITC looks like a winner,” he said. “The devil is in the details. For starters, the program is dominated by fraud.”

Illegal immigrant households are more than three times as likely to receive EITC than native-born American households,

Rubenstein said. Higher fertility rates evident among the immigrant population accounts for this disparity, he said.

“Even a tiny increase in the fertility rates, if maintained over the decades, will have enormous consequences,” Rubenstein said. “The role of EITC in the nation’s demographic destiny cannot be denied.”

Rubenstein also cited figures from the General Accounting Office (GAO) showing that as many as a third of all EITC claims are “improperly paid.”

Rubenstein’s report “The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration: A Study in Fraud, Abuse and Liberal Activism” is available at The SocialContract.Com.

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

Rubenstein also cited figures from the General Accounting Office (GAO) showing that as many as a third of all EITC claims are “improperly paid.”

[Nagishkaw 510]

no kidding.

[AlHayatZween 2]

[Scott & Lai 12]

Admit it, Danno, you're just a brown-people hating xenophobe

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

HEY! These poor folks deserve every cent. Who said havin kids you cant afford wasnt profitable?

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

HEY! These poor folks deserve every cent. Who said havin kids you cant afford wasnt profitable?

even if they are imaginary kids.

[Scott & Lai 12]

HEY! These poor folks deserve every cent. Who said havin kids you cant afford wasnt profitable?

even if they are imaginary kids.

You're just upset that they had the ingenuity to think of it and you didn't

[Niels Bohr 72]

Given any opportunity, someone will take advantage of it. Whether they're illegals or legals.

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

HEY! These poor folks deserve every cent. Who said havin kids you cant afford wasnt profitable?

even if they are imaginary kids.

You're just upset that they had the ingenuity to think of it and you didn't

yeah, i'd probably put down the name of the cat instead

[mawilson 2,133]

But not to fret.... all this tax payer money will help stimulate the economy (in Mexico anyway).

Well that's the problem, isn't it?

Remittances to Mexico should be taxed at 50%, unless the remitter can provide ID and a valid SSN.

(BTW, I'm not the only person who thinks so. Royce West, a Democrat Senator from Dallas, wants

to tax remittances sent to Mexico as a way of defraying health care costs.)

[SMOKE 1,426]

But not to fret.... all this tax payer money will help stimulate the economy (in Mexico anyway).

Well that's the problem, isn't it?

Remittances to Mexico should be taxed at 50%, unless the remitter can provide ID and a valid SSN.

(BTW, I'm not the only person who thinks so. Royce West, a Democrat Senator from Dallas, wants

to tax remittances sent to Mexico as a way of defraying health care costs.)

i like that idea. 50% tax on all transfers out of the US, unless the remitter can provide government issued ID & a valid SSN.