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A consistent set of reports finds that undocumented (commonly called “illegal”) immigrants paid roughly , and multiple analyses warn that changes in enforcement or data-sharing could reduce compliance...
Undocumented immigrants pay substantial taxes and provide major labor-market contributions: several analyses estimate they paid roughly $96–97 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, and ot...
Undocumented immigrants do pay Social Security and Medicare taxes through payroll withholding and tax filings using either Social Security numbers (sometimes borrowed or false) or Individual Taxpayer ...
Estimates for how much undocumented immigrants paid in federal income taxes in 2023 cluster in a relatively narrow band when researchers disambiguate “federal income” from payroll and other federal ta...
Public reporting shows Donald Trump paid little to no federal income tax in several years prior to and during his presidency because of reported large business losses and deductions; The New York Time...
’s recent filings — and analysis by the — show the company reported paying precisely on $2.3 billion of income in 2024, producing an effective U.S. federal tax rate near zero for that year and roughly...
Estimates of how much "illegal aliens" cost U.S. taxpayers diverge sharply because researchers measure different things: one line of work finds undocumented immigrants paid roughly , while other analy...
A body of recent research converges on the finding that , with most estimates allocating about , and researchers estimate that . These figures come from Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analy...
The estimated annual fiscal impact of unauthorized immigration to U.S. taxpayers varies widely because analysts use different definitions and methods; prominent recent estimates range from a to a , wh...
Yes — people living and working in the United States without legal authorization do pay substantial federal, state and local taxes, through payroll withholding, income tax filings using Individual Tax...
Available, credible studies and advocacy reports agree that undocumented immigrants both pay and cost taxpayers billions annually, but the sources provided do not supply a consistent denominator neede...
Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. routinely pay the same categories of taxes as other residents — payroll (Social Security and Medicare), income, sales, property and excise taxes — often by using an...
The available, reputable estimates do not provide a single, audited total for how much “illegal” or undocumented immigrants paid in taxes in calendar year 2025; the most-cited, methodical studies repo...
Estimates in recent reporting and research place undocumented immigrants’ annual contributions to Social Security in the tens of billions of dollars — commonly cited figures are about $25 billion in 2...
There is no public reporting in the provided sources that states how much Donald J. Trump personally paid in federal or state income taxes for tax year 2025; the available journalism and policy resear...
Undocumented immigrants in the United States paid in combined federal, state and local taxes in 2022, according to repeated reporting of an Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) estimate; s...
The three analyses provided present divergent estimates of the fiscal impact of undocumented immigration on U.S. taxpayers in recent years: one conservative advocacy group estimates a as of early 2023...
Multiple independent analyses find that undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars a year in federal, state, and local taxes—estimates cluster around $90–$100 billion for 2022–2023—while ...
Executive Summary Undocumented immigrants collectively contribute substantial payroll and other taxes to federal, state, and local coffers—analyses in the provided record report totals near , with pay...
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...