Illicitly Providing Tax Benefits to Illegal Aliens
It's Time to Rein in the Rogue IRS
By Dan Cadman on July 3, 2017
One of the Center's Board members, Jan Ting, recently penned an interesting blog concerning the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which, despite its reputation for doggedness where citizens' tax filings are concerned, appears to be more than willing to permit certain aliens to get away with violating the law.
The specific issue Ting wrote about was illegal aliens claiming child tax credits: "These child tax credits are being provided by the IRS to illegal aliens notwithstanding that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (PRWOA) long ago provided that an illegal alien 'is not eligible for any Federal public benefit.'" As Ting notes, a federal appeals court has ruled that provision of those credits to illegal aliens constitutes the equivalent of a public benefit and therefore is unlawful — notwithstanding which it appears that the IRS is going to continue a long policy of "don't ask-don't tell" where it comes to these illegal-alien claimants, and continue to give away finite federal taxpayer dollars.
http://cis.org/Cadman/Illicitly-Providing-Tax-Benefits-Illegal-Aliens