“Unauthorized immigrants pay “an awful lot in state and local tax revenue,” including sales taxes, and property taxes paid indirectly as rent, said Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington. About half of undocumented workers also have income taxes withheld from paychecks, Gardner said. Others work off the books.”
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