New Jersey Policy Perspectives: Undocumented Residents Pay $587 Million a Year in NJ Taxes
ITEP Work in ActionNew Jersey’s undocumented immigrants contribute $587 million in state and local taxes, the sixth highest level of all the states. And those contributions would increase by $73 million – the eighth most of all states – under comprehensive immigration reform. These are the key Garden State findings in a new 50-state study released today by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.