Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan filed his taxes last year. But Ivan, 54, a Massachusetts resident who hails from Colombia, is worried a recent agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement means he is in danger of being deported for doing what he believed was the right thing.
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media mention April 15, 2025 NBC News: IRS Agreement with ICE to Share Immigrants’ Info Could Lead to Billions Less in Tax Revenue
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media mention April 15, 2025 CNN: “People Are Feeling Betrayed”: They Paid Taxes in Good Faith and Now Fear It Could Lead to Their Deportation
A recent data-sharing deal between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security is sparking widespread concern in immigrant communities – though some details about how the deal could work haven’t been disclosed.
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media mention April 15, 2025 Marketplace: IRS’ Direct File is Free for Millions of Taxpayers, but Not Everyone Wants to Keep It Around.
April 15 is Tax Day. If you haven’t filed yet, one option could be the IRS’ Direct File program, which lets some taxpayers electronically file their returns directly with the agency for free, as opposed to through third-party providers.
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media mention April 14, 2025 Los Angeles Times: IRS Plan to Give Data to ICE Could Wallop California, Where Many Immigrants Pay Taxes
Also like many of her clients, she has routinely paid U.S. taxes in the past using what’s known as an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN, in lieu of a Social Security number. The process seemed pretty straightforward, she said, until recently, when Trump administration officials announced that IRS data would be shared with ICE agents and used to target undocumented taxpayers for the first time.
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media mention April 14, 2025 MSNBC: Trumps Social Security Team has Reportedly Marked More than 6,000 Immigrants as Dead
The New York Times was first to report on the administration’s cancellation of immigrants’ lawfully obtained Social Security numbers — essentially listing individuals as dead — as a means to impede their ability to make money or access government services and to pressure them to leave the country.
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media mention April 14, 2025 Times Union: Editorial: Honesty Ought to Pay
The administration of President Donald J. Trump has decided to have the Internal Revenue Service share information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on undocumented immigrants who have been diligently paying taxes on the promise that their files would be confidential.
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media mention April 13, 2025 Arizona Daily Star: Trump’s Deportation Net Widens to Migrants with Legal Status, Taxpayers
The Trump administration has moved to revoke parole protections issued under President Joe Biden and deport migrants like Doralis, who followed all the rules and used CBP One to enter… -
media mention April 11, 2025 NPR: 4 Takeaways from the Week: In a World That Craves Stability, Trump Brings the Chaos
The IRS agrees to share tax information of immigrants in the country without permanent legal status. The IRS previously didn’t in an effort to get immigrants to pay taxes. They paid about $97 billion in taxes in 2022, including about $60 billion to the federal government, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention April 10, 2025 Newsweek: Florida Wants to Cut Property Taxes—But California Has a Warning
As state lawmakers consider cutting and even abolishing property taxes in Florida, California—which passed major reform in the late 1970s protecting homeowners against significant hikes—offers a cautionary tale of how… -
media mention April 8, 2025 NBC News: IRS to Share Info with ICE About Some Undocumented Immigrant Taxpayers
The Department of Homeland Security has sought to use tax filing information to find people in the U.S. without legal status in support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation.… -
media mention April 8, 2025 Delaware Business Times: Dover Democrat Amends Income Tax Bill to Reflect Meyer’s Proposal
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reports that Delaware has the 40th most regressive state and local tax system in the country. That means those who earn the most will pay the least taxes, between property taxes, income and excise tax and more.
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media mention April 8, 2025 WGBH Boston: Immigrant Taxpayers Hesitate, Delay Filing Amid Fears of Deportation
Elgardo, an undocumented immigrant in Boston, has paid taxes like clockwork for the past seven years with an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN. The nine-digit tax processing number is… -
media mention April 7, 2025 National Catholic Reporter: Editorial: Tax Battle a Referendum on Moral Clarity
Let us be plain: What is being proposed is not tax reform. It is not aimed at fairness, economic stability or the public good. It is a redistribution of wealth — upward, deliberate and vast, from the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich. And more than just poor policy, it is a profound moral failure. These proposals violate the very heart of Catholic social teaching.
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media mention April 7, 2025 Missouri Independent: Missouri Lawmakers Set to Pass Capital Gains Tax Cut with Questions about Its Total Cost
The bill nearing passage could reduce state revenues by $600 million or more, IRS data suggests, instead of the $111 million loss in official estimates Read more. -
media mention April 6, 2025 Associated Press: Mississippi and Kentucky Aim to End Personal Income Taxes
About 45 years have passed since a U.S. state last eliminated its income tax on wages and salaries. But with recent actions in Mississippi and Kentucky, two states now are… -
media mention April 4, 2025 NPR’s Marketplace: Millions of Undocumented Immigrants File Taxes. Now Their Data Could Be Used to Deport Them.
Millions of undocumented immigrants pay taxes every year. And the confidentiality of the addresses and other personal data submitted to the IRS by taxpaying undocumented immigrants has remained protected for… -
media mention April 4, 2025 Audio: ITEP’s Rita Jefferson Talks Property Tax Reform with KKFI-FM in Kansas City
The Kansas legislature failed to place an amendment on the ballot that would cap property valuations. ITEP Local Analyst Rita Jefferson joined the Heartland Labor Forum live to discuss responsible… -
media mention March 29, 2025 New York Times: Assessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government Spending
The world’s richest man made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs. Read more. -
media mention March 28, 2025 Clarion Ledger: Mississippi Governor Signs Income Tax Elimination Bill. How Are You Affected?
With a stroke of a pen, and a few light-hearted jokes, the Build Up Mississippi Act, the largest total tax cut in state history was signed into law on March 27.
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media mention March 25, 2025 The American Independent: Trump’s IRS Cuts Will Make It Easier for Rich Americans to Avoid Paying What They Owe
Experts say staffing cuts at the Internal Revenue Service will make it easier for wealthy tax evaders to avoid paying what they owe to the U.S. Treasury each year. In… -
media mention March 25, 2025 Newsweek: ICE Could Use IRS Data to Track Undocumented Immigrants
Federal immigration authorities may soon gain access to Internal Revenue Service data under a pending agreement that would allow them to verify the names and addresses of individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, according to multiple reports.
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media mention March 25, 2025 Axios: The Fiscal Hit from the IRS Sharing Immigration Information
The more afraid immigrants are that the IRS will report them to immigration authorities, the less they may pay in taxes, experts warn.
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media mention March 24, 2025 Vanity Fair: IRS Prepares to Provide Addresses of Some Undocumented Taxpayers to Immigration Enforcement
“It is a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes,” one former IRS official told The Washington Post, who chose anonymity out of fear of retribution. The partnership between the IRS and ICE is one of the latest moves from President Donald Trump’s administration in their unprecedented onslaught against immigrants, especially ones without documentation.
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media mention March 21, 2025 Missouri Independent: Proposed Tax Credit Boost May Be Lucrative for Missouri Anti-Abortion Centers, Donors
When the Missouri House signed off on a $1.3 billion tax cut package last week, it included a provision creating a 100% tax credit for donations to pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes and diaper banks.
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media mention March 20, 2025 Newsweek: DOGE Stimulus Check Update: Millions Will Not Qualify
The mastermind behind the proposal to issue “DOGE dividend” checks to Americans has confirmed to Newsweek that millions of taxpaying immigrants without legal status will not be eligible for the payments.