{"id":26387,"date":"2011-09-03T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26387"},"modified":"2011-09-03T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:00:34","slug":"need-a-tax-break-be-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26387","title":{"rendered":"Need a tax break? Be illegal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/undocumented-workers-got-billions-from-irs-in-tax-credits-audit-finds\/2011\/03\/23\/gIQAhtaKvJ_blog.html\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that the IRS forked over $4.2 billion in tax breaks to illegal aliens in 2010;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe disconcerting findings in this report demand immediate attention and action from Congress and the Obama Administration,\u201d [Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)] said in a statement.. \u201cWith our debt standing at over $14.5 trillion and counting, it\u2019s outrageous that the IRS is handing out refundable tax credits&#8230;to those who aren\u2019t even eligible to work in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wage earners who do not have Social Security numbers and are not authorized to work in the United States can use what the IRS calls individual taxpayer identification numbers. Often these result in fraudulent claims on tax returns, auditors found.<\/p>\n<p>Their data showed that 72 percent of returns filed with taxpayer identification numbers claimed the child tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>The audit recommended that the IRS seek clarification on the law and check the immigration status of filers with taxpayer indentificaion numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? They needed an audit to tell the IRS to check the immigration status of tax payers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the IRS forked over $4.2 billion in tax breaks to illegal &hellip; <a title=\"Need a tax break? Be illegal.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26387\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need a tax break? Be illegal.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}