{"id":1841,"date":"2011-09-24T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2011-09-24T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T23:46:24","slug":"illegal-aliens-receive-billions-in-irs-tax-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Aliens Receive Billions in IRS Tax Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, 2011, the U.S. Department of Treasury&#8217;s inspector general for tax administration issued a startling report entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable Credits.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finances are in turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Treasury report, foreign nationals not authorized to work in the United States and ineligible for a Social Security Number (SSN) are nevertheless receiving government help from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS currently issues undocumented aliens an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to facilitate their filing of tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Many illegal workers are paid in cash \u00e2\u20ac\u0153under the table\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and thus file no tax forms at all; but a number of undocumented workers, according to the Treasury report, are receiving public benefits contrary to federal and state laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/JamesWalsh\/Illegal-Aliens-IRS-Tax\/2011\/09\/23\/id\/412134\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/JamesWalsh\/Illegal-Aliens-IRS-Tax\/2011\/09\/23\/id\/412134<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, 2011, the U.S. Department of Treasury&#8217;s inspector general for tax administration issued a startling report entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable Credits.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d No wonder the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finances are in turmoil. According to the Treasury report, foreign nationals not authorized to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}