The Washington Post: Breaking Down the $11.8B Illegal Immigrants Pay in Taxes
media mentionHere’s a talking point for Democrats: President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will generate an extra $845 million in taxes annually from immigrants living here illegally. But that’s just a drop in the bucket compared with the $11.8 billion they already pay.
Those estimates come from a new report by the well-regarded Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan nonprofit that has for decades issued research on federal, state and local tax policy. The latest report even breaks it down by state: Undocumented immigrants in California were responsible for more than a fourth of the estimated $11.8 billion in taxes paid by the nation’s undocumented immigrants.