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Federal, state, and local governments in the United States impose a wide range of taxes. In many cases, these taxes directly or indirectly affect undocumented immigrants, whether through the consumption of goods and services or even through the rental of housing. In this context, Florida is one of the six states that collects the most from these illegal aliens.
Undocumented immigrants paid more than $96 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022itep.org
For its part, the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy took the data from the last Census and cross-referenced it with the statistics of the Internal Revenue Service. With these two information bases, prepared a report to determine what contribution undocumented immigrants make to U.S. tax collection and how they participate.
According to the reportlos undocumented immigrants paid more than $96 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022. The central government received the lion’s share of that amount (US$59 billion) and the rest went to other administrations (US$37 billion).
Despite their undocumented status, this group of people contributes to the United States through the payment of taxes. The direct way they have of doing so is when they consume goodssuch as with utilities, household products and gasoline. In addition, pay property taxes, if they own a home. Tenants can do this indirectly, when their landlord raises the monthly rent due to taxes.
The Institute explains that, in the case of state and local tax payments, The largest tax contribution was made on sales (US$15 billion)Property taxes were in second place ($10 billion), while personal and corporate income taxes completed the podium ($7 billion).
The largest tax contribution from undocumented immigrants was made on sales ($15 billion)itep.org
“Undocumented immigrants They also paid another $4 billion in taxes to states other than those in which they reside.“This was most common when they made taxable purchases when they traveled across borders between regions. It was also the case when they bought items from companies located in other U.S. jurisdictions, which shifted their tax expense to the costs of the product.
Due to its legal status, a peculiarity is that More than a third of the taxes paid by undocumented immigrants go to fund programs they cannot accessFor example, they contributed $25 billion to Social Security, $6 billion to Medicare, and $1.8 billion to unemployment insurance.
Tax contributions from undocumented immigrants are concentrated mainly in six statesThese raised more than $1 billion and accounted for 64% of the total:
Tax revenue paid by undocumented immigrants is mostly allocated to programs they cannot accessUser – itep.org
Specifically in Florida, the report highlights that, If they had legal status, undocumented immigrants would pay around US$1.9 billion. Regarding the amount they currently pay, the largest contributions are due to:
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