Immigration: Aliens granted executive amnesty by President Obama will be eligible for tax credits for the years they worked here illegally. But wasn't amnesty supposed to benefit the economy and not drain the U.S. Treasury? Subverting the Constitution to grant millions of illegal aliens work permits and freedom from deportation apparently isn't enough for the Obama administration. It now intends, through the Internal Revenue Service, to subvert the tax code to let these illegals collect billions in retroactive Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) payments.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover-up of the IRS Tea Party targeting by Lois Lerner, confirmed Tuesday in a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee that an illegal alien who filed tax returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will be eligible to amend the returns for the three prior years to collect the EITC once he or she obtains a valid Social Security number.
The IRS requires everyone employed in the U.S., whether here legally or not, to file tax returns. Since illegals aren't supposed to have a Social Security number, the IRIS created the ITIN, a nine-digit number for them to file under.
By statute, ITIN filers aren't eligible for the EITC. But they've been able to collect billions of dollars through the Additional Child Tax Credit, which presumably is why they've been bothering to file returns. The ACTC is a fully refundable credit of up to $1,000 per child to help working families who have children at home.
Problem is, that home may not be here, but back in Mexico, and the children claimed are often nieces and nephews in what are often rather large extended families. An investigation done in 2012 by NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis found four workers claiming 20 children living in one residence, with the IRS sending these aliens tax refunds totaling $29,608. The children did not in fact reside in the United States.
In 2011, Russell George, the now famous (as a result of the Tea Party targeting scandal) IRS inspector general, issued a report saying that this loophole, which the Obama administration has no intention of closing, was costing the American taxpayer some $4.2 billion a year.
Now the IRS and the Obama administration want these illegal aliens to drain the U.S. Treasury further by making them eligible to collect additional billions from the EITC. Rather than contributing to the U.S. economy, they're bleeding it dry and sending much of their ill-gotten gains back to Mexico in the form of remittances. Total remittances sent back to Mexico totaled $22 billion in 2013, according to the Pew ResearchCenter.
