Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Many Illegal immigrants pay taxes they'll likely never see again

Billions of dollars are paid every year by immigrants using fake Social Security numbers. They will never get the benefits from it. - - Donna Poisl

Lisa Loevsky

PASCO, Wash. -- While there is a misconception illegal immigrants don't pay taxes, new figures released from the social security administration show otherwise.

Social Security officials keep a record of wages that do not match up with real names and numbers in their system. The record is called the earnings suspense file. Most of the taxes taken out, will likely never be returned to these workers in the future.

In 2009, the last year for which figures are available, employers reported wages of $72.8 billion for 7.7 million workers who could not be matched to legal Social Security numbers.
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