Most illegal immigrants who pay taxes have stolen someone else’s legal identity, and the IRS doesn’t do a very good job of letting those American citizens and illegal immigrants know they’re being impersonated, the tax agency’s inspector general said in a new report released Thursday.
The theft creates major problems for the American citizens and legal foreign workers whose identities are stolen, and who have to deal with explaining money they never earned.
But the IRS only manages to identify half of the potentially 1.4 million people likely affected by the fraud in 2015, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in its report.
“Cases of employment identity theft can cause significant burden to innocent taxpayers, including the incorrect computation of taxes based on income that does not belong to them,” said J. Russell George, the inspector general.
It’s long been a conundrum in the federal government.
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Well putting every single one of them in prison (and voiding those SSNs) would be a very good start in getting a handle on the illegals problem. And if anyone says they didn't commit a crime, YES they did, in fact at least 2 - being here illegally and misuse of an SSN. Lock them up!
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DeleteNo, don't lock them up. Free them! Into wherever they came from. Free deportations for all illegals.
DeleteImprisonment is expensive.
Imprisonment is expensive.
DeleteBut surprisingly enough, life in prison without parole costs the taxpayer less than executing one.
It also means, having a SSN also allows them (and their family members) to later claim benefits from Social Security. Consider a situation where an ILLEGAL alien, is using a stolen SSN, then suffers a "back injury" which is always work related. Doc signs off on the illegal alien is now disabled. Illegal alien now collects for life social security disability payments. If you know how to game the system you can live a comfortable life at some one else's expense. The feds are not going to fix the corrupt system as it would mean losing votes. You don't get elected by telling the public the truth. The public loves their illusions to dearly to give them up.
ReplyDeleteThe dirty secret about Social Security is that the system IS bankrupt. Every single dollar that you pay into the system is NOT going to some imaginary "lock box" with your name and number on it, waiting for the day you retire. That dollar has already been spent, given to some one already on the system. Nobody knows where the money is going to come from when you retire and want to collect on your social security payments. Not the slightest clue at all. It is what in government speak as an "unfunded liability" (aka we made a promise that we have no idea on how we going to keep it).
Illegal alien now collects for life social security disability payments. If you know how to game the system you can live a comfortable life at some one else's expense.
DeleteYou can be an 18 year old strong male, but if you insist you can't find a job, you will get about $2,500 a month considering everything. The only stipulation is that you can't have anything in your name.
I laugh every time I hear a liberal or democrat say they are just hard working people that haven't broken and laws. Why deport them? The fact is EVERY illegal working has committed at least one and probably two serious felonies. One, they have committed identity theft. Two they have committed tax fraud. Either of which will put any citizen behind bars. But illegals, no big deal. Give them a pass for their crimes.
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EVERY illegal working has committed at least one and probably two serious felonies. One, they have committed identity theft. Two they have committed tax fraud. Either of which will put any citizen behind bars. But illegals, no big deal. Give them a pass for their crimes.
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