Striker@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year agoReactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heavenlemmy.worldimagemessage-square123fedilinkarrow-up11.77Karrow-down139
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minus-squareShortFuse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 year agoI looked up the numbers a while back but this 2017 study says at least 50%, meaning the majority pay taxes. https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-state-local-tax-contributions-2017/ Also, note that only 59.9% of households pay taxes, which means legal status isn’t that important in terms of whether people pay taxes or not. They also won’t likely get any social security money either.
minus-squaresystemglitch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThey pay more huh? That’s some magical shit right there lol
minus-squareDarthBueller@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThey pay more if you consider that they frequently pay SS with no payout for them.
minus-squareSanyanov@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoHow does it work btw? Do you come to your country’s tax authority and say “hello, I’m here illegally, can I pay taxes” ?
minus-squareShortFuse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoYou file your taxes under a special SSN that begins with a 9 that is given to you by the IRS specifically for filing. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxpayer-identification-numbers-tin#itin
minus-squareSanyanov@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoAnd you’re not immediately arrested for, like, illegally working or potentially illegally crossing the border to begin with? Or is it like taxing criminal activity, simply a loophole to make charging them easier?
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoa) different departments, tax department doesn’t deal with immigration law b) government likes money more than it likes fairness, as should be obvious looking at… yknow… [gestures generally]
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I looked up the numbers a while back but this 2017 study says at least 50%, meaning the majority pay taxes.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-state-local-tax-contributions-2017/
Also, note that only 59.9% of households pay taxes, which means legal status isn’t that important in terms of whether people pay taxes or not. They also won’t likely get any social security money either.
They pay more huh? That’s some magical shit right there lol
They pay more if you consider that they frequently pay SS with no payout for them.
How does it work btw? Do you come to your country’s tax authority and say “hello, I’m here illegally, can I pay taxes” ?
You file your taxes under a special SSN that begins with a 9 that is given to you by the IRS specifically for filing.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxpayer-identification-numbers-tin#itin
And you’re not immediately arrested for, like, illegally working or potentially illegally crossing the border to begin with?
Or is it like taxing criminal activity, simply a loophole to make charging them easier?
a) different departments, tax department doesn’t deal with immigration law
b) government likes money more than it likes fairness, as should be obvious looking at… yknow… [gestures generally]
I see, thanks!
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