Tax time for them, too!

It's tax time for immigrants, too!

 

What's the estimate for the illegal's?

 

They don't separate it - that includes legal and illegal immigrants.

 

It appears that illegals pay taxes to get tax
id numbers. Do they continue paying?

 

Well, first they get the tax ID number, and then they pay the taxes. They get the tax ID number to get a job - without identity theft.

 

NPR has been covering this quite a bit lately. A lot of folks pay their taxes in hopes of eventually becoming legal. Some of them are actually filling taxes for previous years.

Heard one story today about a guy who got a big refund because of his donations to charity. Turns out that he has been turning in weekly payments to the Fraternal Order of Police thinking that that was a bribe to keep the police from picking him up.

 

?

 

I have heard a number of times from different sources where they get these numers up front so that withholding can occur.

 

Oops, they changed the procedure. They say the reason for the change is

So that leaves me wondering - what do they put on their W-4 & I-9 for SS# when they apply for a job? I read through the list of exceptions that comes with the form and instructions, and that's not one of them.