Voice of America: Illegal US Immigrants Pay Billions in Taxes, But Is It Enough?
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“The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy – which bills itself as a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that works on tax policy issues — estimates undocumented immigrants pay about $11.64 billion a year in state and local taxes.
However, the truth is that no one knows exactly how much undocumented immigrants cost the nation or how much they pay into it.
“Anytime you’re analyzing something for which the first adjective describing it is ‘undocumented’, that makes it a little harder to measure,” said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). “But yes, absolutely these data should be interpreted as a best guess.”
The point, Gardner says, is that illegal immigrants pay a significant amount into the system.”