Washington Post: House GOP Plan to Raise Child Tax Credit Adds Citizenship Provisions
media mention“This is, by definition, all children who are legally supposed to be here in the country,” said Joe Hughes, an analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy who worked on the study. He said that the Trump administration’s efforts to use tax information and IRS agents in immigration enforcement — ending a long tradition of keeping taxes off-limits to immigration actions — has already reduced the likelihood that undocumented immigrants would file taxes at all; removing the child tax credit creates even less incentive.