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doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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.
quo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
In my opinion the costs are much higher to not integrate new peoples. Undocumented Immigrants provide a lot of the ingredients but take none of the pie. I’m not going to sit here and say cheap labor is acceptable, but there is a point where you have to admit we wouldn’t have nearly as many workers in less desirable employment fields if not for immigrants, even if wages were higher.
theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
How are they paying though? That requires some kind of identification.
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Their employers pay taxes on their wages through their fake as numbers. They pay sales tax when they buy things from the store
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
irs.gov/…/individual-taxpayer-identification-numb…
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Perhaps not income taxes, but maybe taxes on goods and services, property taxes, etc? Can’t say for certain though.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year 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.