President Obama's 'Amnesty Bonus' for Illegals

Paul B. Matthews / American Thinker

In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Eileen J. O’Connor, a tax lawyer and the former head of the tax division of the United States Department of Justice, revealed that illegal aliens may be able to receive a substantial cash payment, an “amnesty bonus” as Senator Ben Sasse put it, under President Obama’s deferral of action on immigration enforcement. Daniel Halper in The Weekly Standard writes:

“The law makes a social security number a requirement of eligibility to receive the earned income credit,” O’Connor explained.

“But in 1999, the Chief Counsel’s office of IRS ruled (in a non-binding, non-precedential way, but no one but the IRS pays attention to those disclaimers) that when a person receives a social security number, he can file amended returns to claim the credit for the three preceding years during which he did not. The logic is puzzling: the credit is not available if you don’t have a social security number, but you can receive it retroactively for years during which you did not qualify for it because you didn’t have a social security number.”

Illegals, especially those with children, may be able to file amended tax forms for 3 years prior to the amnesty stroke of the pen.  If allowed, this would result in the nearly immediate payout of billions of dollars in tax refunds from the federal government to those granted amnesty.

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