A Boring Dystopia

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Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This one also surprises a lot of people: They pay taxes. Undocumented Immigrants in the USA paid about 11.6Bn USD in taxes in 2019 according to ITEP.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How are they paying though? That requires some kind of identification.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Their employers pay taxes on their wages through their fake ss numbers. They pay sales tax when they buy things from the store

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identification-number

An Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) is a tax processing number issued by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS issues ITINs to individuals who are required to have a U.S. taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain, a Social Security number (SSN) from the Social Security Administration (SSA).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps not income taxes, but maybe taxes on goods and services, property taxes, etc? Can't say for certain though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you don't have an SSN then you still need to pay income taxes via ITIN. You don't want to be caught for Tax Fraud as an immigrant.

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