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Estimates of the taxpayer cost of “illegal immigration” vary widely: a 2024 FAIR study puts the annual fiscal burden at roughly $151 billion and calculates a per-taxpayer hit near $1,156 ($957 after a...
Undocumented immigrants pay substantial taxes — researchers estimate roughly $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022 — yet they are largely barred from collecting many federal social ...
There is no single, authoritative percentage in the public record for how many undocumented (commonly called “illegal”) immigrants specifically pay federal income tax; estimates and data points in pub...
Available sources do not give a single definitive percentage of “African Americans who pay federal income tax” but they do provide related figures: analyses show that roughly 47% of U.S. filing units ...
Undocumented immigrants pay billions into Social Security and Medicare — recent estimates put payroll-tax contributions around $25–26 billion to Social Security and about $6–6.4 billion to Medicare in...
Undocumented (often called “illegal”) immigrants make measurable fiscal and economic contributions to the United States: they pay billions in federal, state and local taxes, contribute to Social Secur...
Public data and reporting show that millions of federal tax returns are filed each year using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), but the exact share that are filed by undocumented imm...
Estimates of annual tax revenue from undocumented (commonly called “illegal”) immigrants cluster around roughly $90–$100 billion for 2022–2023 in recent, widely cited analyses: the Institute on Taxati...
——has moved through the legislative process to adopt the new federal deductions for tips and overtime wages effective in 2026; most other states are either decoupling, waiting for 2026 sessions, or re...
taxpayers have funded substantial services for migrants and people the state and city categorize as asylum seekers or undocumented, through direct state appropriations, city spending on shelter and se...
Elon Musk’s companies have received billions in public support over the past two decades through contracts, loans, tax credits and subsidies—estimates range from about $20 billion to $38 billion depen...
does not automatically exempt tips from taxation at the state level; federal law created a temporary “no tax on tips” style deduction for qualified tips beginning with tax year 2025, and North Carolin...
Biden-era fiscal policies — large pandemic-era stimulus, expanded tax credits and later budget proposals to raise taxes on corporations and high earners — coincided with strong headline growth, histor...
Estimates in recent reporting and research show undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions in taxes yearly (roughly $90–$97 billion in 2022 estimates cited by multiple groups) while generally remain...
Analysts and Democratic officials say the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) / Trump megabill delivers the largest per‑year tax cuts to the ultra‑wealthy: estimates put $117 billion in tax cuts for the to...
President Biden’s FY2025 budget package proposes making the expanded ACA premium tax credits permanent and using multiple tax increases on corporations and high‑income individuals to pay for health an...
Estimates in recent reporting place undocumented immigrants’ aggregate “spending power” in the hundreds of billions: the American Immigration Council reported $299 billion in spending power for undocu...
Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 2025 under current federal law: the EITC requires a valid Social Security number and that a filer be a U.S. ...
Federal law and IRS rules currently bar most undocumented immigrants from claiming the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and generally limit Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility unless qualifying ...
Donald Trump’s reported , with multiple analyses citing multi‑billion dollar gains tied to media and crypto ventures, but the available material does not provide consistent, itemized evidence that his...