IRS Gives Illegal Aliens Billions In Refunds
The Internal Revenue Service has allowed more than one million foreigners—many
in the U.S. illegally—to improperly claim tax credits that they don’t qualify
for and it will end up costing the government close to $9 billion.
The best part is that the IRS knowingly permitted the exorbitant tax credits
even though workers did not provide valid Social Security numbers on their
returns, but rather the alternative Tax Identification Number (TIN) popular
among illegal immigrants but not valid to work in the U.S.
Furthermore, the IRS allows companies that employ foreigners to file taxes
using TINs—rather than the required Social Security—even though the law forbids
it. A lengthy report, made public this week by the Treasury Inspector General
for Tax Administration, lays out the gory details of how the tax agency’s
negligence rewards law breakers and deprives the nation of crucial funds.
In one year alone, the IRS allowed nearly 300,000 U.S. companies to illegally
report wages—of employees without valid Social Security numbers—totaling $9.5
billion. This in turn led the government to issue nearly $2 billion in illegal
child tax credits to ineligible foreigners, many of them illegal aliens not
authorized to earn wages in the U.S.
The inspector general points out that this creates an obvious problem since the
payment of federal funds through this tax benefit provides an additional
incentive for aliens to enter, reside and work in the U.S. without
authorization, which contradicts federal law and policy to remove such
incentives.
The IRS has for years accommodated illegal immigrants, by creating the special
TINs for foreigners about a decade ago and subsequently allowing millions to
illegally file income taxes with the special numbers. For years the tax agency
has looked the other way even after discovering millions of W-2 forms with
names that don’t match a Social Security number.
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