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Do illegal immigrants pay taxes?
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Anonymous 1w

generally yeah

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I mean obviously sales tax but the don’t file taxes

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

They pay income tax too generally

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

They might not file a return but their employer may be withholding taxes, so the money is still sent to the IRS

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I don’t believe you. They are already here illegally who’s to say the don’t take advantage of the system by being “invisible” and not pay taxes.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Do you have any credible cases of this?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

You can just look it up, it’s not hard. 90 billion in paid taxes each year.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Because your employer withholds your income taxes, social security, etc, it’s often not up to the individual person pays taxes or not. A lot use a fake social security number to pay without getting benefits. Others apply for a specific tax number.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Again how do you know if they are u documented your tax payer id number is different

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Sometimes it’s withheld and sent under a fake SSN or TIN. Sometimes no return is filed at all, but the withholding still happens and the IRS keeps the money. In the methodology section, they describe how they estimate the number of undocumented immigrants not filing based on the rates of all non-filers. We don’t have an exact count but there are estimates

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

There is no way they could have an accurate number of undocumented immgrants they are undocumented

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