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The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to help homeland security officials locate immigrants they are trying to deport, according to three officials familiar with the matter, in a shift toward using protected taxpayer information to help President Trump’s mass deportation push.

Under a draft of an agreement between the I.R.S. and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the tax agency would verify whether immigration officials had the right home address for people who have been ordered to leave the United States, according to a copy of the document viewed by The New York Times.

Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the I.R.S., giving the agency information about where they live, their families, their employers and their earnings. The I.R.S. has long encouraged undocumented immigrants to pay their taxes, giving people without Social Security numbers a separate nine-digit code called an individual taxpayer identification number to file their returns.

Tax information is closely guarded because federal law bars improper disclosure. I.R.S. officials had resisted earlier requests from the Department of Homeland Security to turn over information about unauthorized immigrants, warning that doing so could violate federal law.


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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is going to lead to a whole lot of people not filing taxes out of fear of being deported. Not even just the undocumented, but also anyone who's in this country perfectly legally but fears deportation because their skin is a little too brown.

Think about it. There is now a direct path between filing your taxes and ending up in an El Salvador prison.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Brown? A Canadian woman was just held for two weeks by ICE even though she was willing to pay for her own flight home, after her work visa was revoked because some idiot thought it was suspicious she got approved after an initial denial.

Skin color doesn’t matter anymore.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

H&R Block agent:

I see you donated to the Democratic party and Planned Parenthood.

hits secret thug button under his desk

Just sit tight. I'll be right back, sir.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You want people to dodge taxes? This is how you get people to dodge taxes.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hah! I came here to make this exact comment.

I went and looked it up:

Nationally, undocumented immigrants pay $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022.

From: https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/undocumented-immigrants-pay-1-8-billion-in-florida-taxes-a-year-national-study-finds#%3A%7E%3Atext=Nationally%2C+undocumented+immigrants+pay+%2496.7%2Cbillion+in+additional+tax+revenue. (First search result)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Will be interesting to see the decline in that number over the next 4 years or longer from the permanent damage it causes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s not like they’re not still taking taxes out of their paychecks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They'll just find cash jobs instead of the risk of being deported for paying taxes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If there’s cash jobs available, sure.

Cash jobs that aren’t totally exploiting their status.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

And now that the rule of law is over ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So... the goal is to get rid of the illegal immigrants afraid to pay taxes... great plan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, these immigrants were paying taxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

er yeah lol was toggling between get rid of the immigrants that pay taxes, or to make immigrants afraid to pay taxes... and somehow got half of each stuck together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, they'll just be afraid to attempt a return, so the government will keep it all, while spreading the lie that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

More likely that they would owe, and were filing in order to not draw undue attention. Now they're disincentivized from taking on work that will result in employment and income taxes, hurting IRS income further.