Immigrants fear the deportation of the submission of taxes due to the IRS ICE agreement

Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan submitted his taxes last year. The 54 -year -old IVan, a resident of Massachusetts, who comes from Colombia, fear that a latest agreement between the IRS and the immigration and customs authority means that it is in danger that he will be deported to do what he believed was the right one.

And if taxpayers like IVAN decide not to submit taxes because the IRS has announced that they would share certain tax information that is submitted by undocumented immigrants with ice, this could eliminate billions of billions in tax revenue and create “a massive problem” for citizens and immigrants, said experts.

According to the Institute for Taxing and Economic Policy, a non-profit, non-participating tax policy, immigrants without papers paid 96.7 billion US dollars in federal, state and local taxes in 2022. Around 59.4 billion US dollars went to the federal government and 37.3 billion US dollars to state and local governments, according to the group. It found that even a decline in the number of immigrants without papers that submit their taxes would mean a decrease of 9.5 billion US dollars per year.

“The biggest problem from the perspective of the income is that the opening of tax documents for the enforcement of immigration reduces the tax compliance of immigrants, regardless of whether or not, and that will have significant effects on tax revenue,” said Tom Bowman, a political lawyer of the Center for Security and the surveillance project of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

The agreement between IRS and ICE is a break with the long -term precedent of the federal government that tax information is not used against undocumented people to look for their deportation. Lawyers, supporters and other immigrants have also spread the same message – just to bring this feeling of security for immigrants without papers like Ivan under the new policy of Trump management.

“It’s like a broken promise. It’s like betrayal,” said Ivan in Spanish. He asked that his full name was not used for fear of deportation.

The deputy DHS secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that President Donald Trump is doing what should have been done all the time and to share information about the government in the government to solve problems.

McLaughlin previously said: “Information exchange in the agencies is important to determine who is in our country, including violent criminal, determine what public security and threats of terrorism are available so that we can neutralize them, find out these people from voting roles and find out what public advantages these extraterrestrials use on the American tax committee.”

Undocumented immigrants and people without social security numbers can pay their taxes with the individual taxpayer identification number that the IRS created in 1996.

In order to obtain the tax information of a person, ICE must include certain data in your request to the IRS, including the name and address of the person, the alleged crime from which the person is examined, and the reasons that disclose the tax information are relevant for the criminal proceedings or the investigation.

Tax and immigration experts said that the government’s trust could undermine the government’s trust and lead to a decline in tax compliance.

“This is not just an attack on undocumented immigrants. It is an attack on everyone who calls this country at home,” said Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition.

ICE did not immediately answer the request for comments on the guideline. Also the finance department to which the IRS belongs.

The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy estimated what would happen if more immigrants would not pay their taxes without papers. It was found that tax revenue would decrease annually by $ 9.5 billion for every 10 percent drop in a loss of 10 percent, with $ 8.6 billion from federal funds and an additional $ 900 million from state and local tax revenue.

“This will have Rinna-Down effects that will carry out increased financial burdens across the country,” said Bowman, adding that the income for important federal programs such as social security and medicar, for which immigrants are available without papers, would not even be justified.

“The effects are only massive,” he said.

On an individual level “it feels like you are stabbed in your back,” said a 30-year-old Brazilian asylum seeker who asked that his name was not used for fear of being deported. He added that he had submitted taxes for years. “Most of us want to submit taxes and comply with the law. Now we are at risk with our life in the management.”

He said he didn’t know if he would pay taxes this year. Ivan also said that he was undecided because he fears that he will be deported.

“It is a constant horror for immigrants,” he said. “They don’t just take criminals. They all want to take with them, people who work and contribute to this country.”

There were strict data protection laws for taxpayers after the former President Richard Nixon tried to use IRS information to pursue his political opponents.

“His origin was to prevent the use of weapons of tax data against political opponents and perceived enemies,” said Bowman.

Angela Divaris, a lawyer of Greater Boston Legal Services, who offers free legal services, said that people who create tax taxes for large municipalities with immigrants have registered both for the first time for the first time and the return of filters this year.

Divaris said that lawyers also inform the instructions on the information of immigrants about the payment of their taxes and the explanation of the new potential risks associated with it.

Lawyers and supporters who have advised immigrants without papers also feel an “enormous feeling of guilt and concern,” said Bowman.

“For decades, lawyers and organizations of civil society have asked to submit their taxes to be submitted to their taxes in order to demonstrate financial responsibility for use in the immigration procedure and to bring themselves into life in the United States,” he said. “Now there is a question whether this is good advice.”