How does an illegal alien pay taxes?
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So Chocolatta when they become citizens then they are no longer illegals right? So in essence illegals never pay taxes right?\nSO the answer is only citizens pay taxes!!!!!!The rest can get on out and quit sponging off of the US
215527
For all you ignorant people sayin that illegal immigrants dont pay taxes and all.. let me tell you something... they do pay taxes! whenever they go to the store, when they get their paycheck they get a tax cut too and they do support the US ecconomy and they do all the dirty work that all you lazy but  wont do!!!\nthey are not criminals they should not be treated like that\nthey are just people tryin to make a better living tryin to provide their families with a better future!!! is that illegal?   that goes to all you ignorant people!!!
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If people obtain legal documents saying that they will pay taxes to the USA then to me they can do anything they want to as long as it doesn't do anything bad. But if they're here illegally then they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. The option to come over here legally is always open but unfortunately some people would rather live in fear than knowing they did something right unlike millions of other people.
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Well, let's see.  They work productively for pay.  They buy stuff.  They pay rent.  They pay taxes.  \n\nWait, you say, they don't pay taxes, right?  Well, they pay every bit of sales tax that you or I do, regardless.  But in many cases, they also end up paying income tax, often more than we do.  Withholding catches them, and they can't file to get the tax refunds that are often due them, so they end up leaving it in the government coffers.\n\nThe only things they can't do effectively is buy homes and build businesses.  This is why we need to find a way to make them legal.  I don't suggest amnesty...it will just encourage more illegal behavior in the future.  You can't reward people for breaking the law.  But the simplistic idea of just sending them all home is not only impractical logistically, but harmful economically.\n\nIt is important that we find a way to increase LEGAL immigration to replace the illegals we send back.  It's not like we have a massive job shortage in this country.  If we don't have people willing to work, lots of businesses will not be able to function competitively, and THEN we'll see a weaker economy.
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Just broke 300 million, about 25-30 million are illegal.\n\nAmox is wrong, they are not all taxpayers!! Heck, a large chunk of legal, working citizens don't even pay taxes!!!
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ILLEGALS PAY TAXES and this is why there are so many.  It is impossible to become legal....it is called oppression in my book.  To become legal at least for the Mexicans.....They have to apply and wait at least 15 years for a denial or acceptance.  Lets use an analogy..  My child graduated high school at 18 years old....then has to wait 15 years to be gainfully employed....that means he will be 33 years old before he is able to become employed....what sense does that make....in the meantime what does he do to support himself?  Here are my thoughts on why this situation is as it is and will continue to stay as so:\n\nI don't wish to offend you but I do wish to inform you..... There is no TAX Free money in regards to the majority of the illegals.... unless they work in cash paying jobs ... like construction for example... Lots of people hide in the construction business for that very reason..... illegals are just working in construction. We have American dead beat dads who work in it too so they get easy money under the table as we call it so as not to pay child support. Most industries pay with payroll checks. If an illegal works in an industry that does pay with payroll checks then the appropriate federal and state taxes are removed. I recently did a spot check on payroll checks from the main industry in my town from 4 different illegal pay stubs..... 2 from poultry and 2 from restaurants. I did an estimate based on those 4 pay stubs in regards to the shifts worked at each one of those industries. I had an estimate of State taxes paid in to my state of $64,000.00. I did not figure up the Federal Taxes but you best believe that they have been raking it in also. Please keep in mind that the county that I live in is not ranked among the largest in my state. I would love to be able to do a State wide survey, but the problem is getting people to trust you not to use their information against them. You may be surprised to also be informed that at least 2 of these people had health insurance for which they paid for & utilized, they also had an additional voluntary $5.00 taken out each week as a donation for United Way Fund. I did no guesstimates on those donations, but just these 2 people alone donate a solid figure of $520.00 @ year which has to be noted as community service. IT WAS A REAL EYE OPENER TO ME. Please understand that the illegal does not file federal income taxes.... he does fall in a low income category and would be eligible to receive most of his tax money paid in as refunds... now do you really think that our government wants to make them legal so they have to give that money back ..... NO, of course not. The fence is going to be a joke. Who cares build the fence. The American public has clamored that they wish for this atrocity to be built. Then once all those billions of dollars are sunk into the building of this shameful wall......there will be no money for mass deportations...You seed this is why the government is building this wall... We all know that it will not serve the purpose for which it is built....They didn't even build a levy that could protect New Orleans..... the illegals crossing are just as unpredictable.....Build the fence so they will be able to say later well we don't have the money now for deportations.......Also you will see discounts on ladders on the other side of the border. You just need a ladder to safely scale the wall without a scratch. .THE POLITICIANS DO NOT WANT TO SEND THE ILLEGAL BACK
896382
I don't think there is a direct law stating that you have to pay but they still make us pay nonetheless. It is definitely a bunch of crap though. Pay your taxes or go to jail.
57830
The IRS collects around 2 Billion/year that it can't find anyone to pay refunds to because the SSNs don't match.  This money is assumed to have been paid into the system by undocumented workers and/or their employers.  I don't know what portion of that money goes to the social security system.
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To find out,cross the border to mexico with no documents,when they catch you and throw you in jail they will tell you to call your family for money,then call your US consul,and he will tell you that you are being charged as an illegal alien and you have to pay a fine and get deported back to the US.that is an illegal alien,the difference in the US illegal aliens get rewarded for being illegal
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Good point.  I know of many cases where people have worked the heck out of illegal aliens for days and when pay day comes they report them to the cops or immigration to avoid paying them.  The employer is usually someone that hires them for handyman work and it never involves major companies.  Bottom line is that the illegal alien usually get returned to their country.  Also this mostly occurs in border communities.
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My younger brother moved from the U.S. and picked up Australian citizenship.  He still pays taxes in this country, because he is still a U.S. citizen.  His tax bill there didn't change when he became a citizen.
454455
Well it is a small percentage of these people that get paid cash. They use forged social security cards and then get a check and get taxes and social security taken out and they never see any of that. As for property taxes, they do pay since i know personally people that do not have a green card that own houses and pay property tax so don't believe those people who generalize and do not know the facts to say illegals don't pay taxes.\nHow about all those American born people that get paid under the table and don't report that income? Is just an argument xenophobes use against immigrants.
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Yep. We have similar problems up in Canada with another ethnic group. We welcome immigrants, if its legal. Otherwise they live for years absorbing money without paying taxes, and sending a good portion of this money back to their home countries, where it is no longer is able to add to the nations economy.\n\nBTW-illsuitedwan... what's your definition of illegal???Illegals do NOT pay taxes, they are paid under the table (illegally) to avoid getting caught.As soon as the IRS recieves tax information on an illegal, the department of immigration is notified and deportation process begins.  Unless unemployment in the US (and Canada for that matter) is at zero percent which it has never been.  then there are 'legal' citizens who need the work, and would pay taxes. Employers get away with hiring illegals and paying them far less than the minimum wage (because they're illegal), automatically putting these people below the poverty line. So how is this helping them?
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1) Internal Revenue Services\n2) Collects Taxes from all the Citizens and Permanet Resident Aliens of the United States of America.
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Kendog; first of all, you should try researching your information before opening the hole in front of your face called your mouth. Per the source below, "Immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in federal, state, and local taxes. Undocumented immigrants pay income taxes as evidenced by the Social Security Administration’s “suspense file” which grew by $20 billion between 1990 and 1998. Immigrants come to work and reunite with family members and their labor participation is consistently higher than native-born. Immigrant workers also make up a larger share of the U.S. labor force (12.4%) than they do the U.S. population (11.5%)." This, in case you didn’t thoroughly understand, basically means that immigrants contribute greatly to the success of this country. And just in case you didn't have a dictionary at home, it's spelled "I-L-L-E-G-A-L". Not illeagle...
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It depends on whether the state you work in taxes non-residents. New York State, for example, taxes the income of people from other states. Those people also may owe income tax in their home state, although usually the home state lets them deduct the income tax paid to NY. They would have to file three tax returns, one federal, one for NY, and one for their home state. In my area, each jurisdiction (Maryland, Virginia, DC) just charges income tax on their own residents. That's much easier, although DC keeps trying to get Congress or the courts to give it permission to tax non-residents. (States don't need permission to do this.) If DC ever gets that through, I assume Maryland and Virginia will start taxing workers from other states too.
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Indians pay taxes to the Indian Goverment and Mexicans pay taxes to the Mexican Goverment.