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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 do pay taxes in multiple ways and recent estimates place their combined federal, state, and local tax contributions near $100 billion for 2022, though alternate methodologies y...
There is no single, definitive count in the provided reporting of how many undocumented immigrants file individual tax returns with ITINs each year; sources instead give related measures: as of Januar...
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...
Undocumented immigrants in recent analyses are estimated to have paid roughly $96.7 billion in combined federal, state, and local taxes in 2022 — a figure widely cited in 2024 coverage and policy pape...