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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...
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 (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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Undocumented immigrants are estimated to pay roughly , yielding a combined payroll-tax contribution in the range; broader estimates put total federal, state, and local tax contributions near for the s...
Multiple reputable studies point to nontrivial payroll-tax contributions from undocumented workers that bolster Social Security and Medicare, with most published estimates putting 2016 contributions a...
Economists estimate taxes paid by unauthorized (undocumented) workers by combining demographic and tax data, applying behavioral assumptions like the share who file or have payroll taxes withheld (com...
Recent federal actions through 2025 have tightened who can claim refundable tax credits and opened the door to tax-data sharing with immigration enforcement—moves likely to reduce benefits or deter fi...
Independent analyses from tax experts say the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) delivered larger dollar and percentage gains to high‑income households than to typical low‑ and middle‑income households...