The keyword here is KNOWINGLY.
EXCERPTS: In a lengthy piece posted at CNS News, it has been found that the IRS consciously decided to ‘legalize illegal aliens’ for tax purposes 17 years ago. This means that foreigners are getting the same tax benefits as U.S. citizens.
The most debatable aspect of this move regards refundable child tax credits. CNS News reports:
The question of whether to legalize illegal aliens and put them on a pathway to citizenship may be the most controversial legislative issue facing the U.S. Congress this year.
But, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), seventeen years have already passed since the Internal Revenue Service made its own “policy decision” to “’legalize’ illegal aliens.”
That policy, made those many years ago, not only determined that the IRS would treat illegal aliens the same as legal immigrants and U.S. citizens, but also that the IRS would not hand over to federal immigration authorities information about employers who appeared to be hiring large numbers of illegal aliens and about illegal aliens who filed false documents with the IRS.
As a result of the IRS’s policy, by 2010, according to TIGTA, the service was paying out $4.2 billion in refundable “Additional Child Tax Credits” [ACTC] to illegal aliens.
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