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Dear Editor:
In response, or in commenting to Brenda Archer's
letter to the editor, I think she possibly means that
immigrants "don't claim the right amount of taxes"
refers to them not putting down the correct amount of
dependents on their 1040A.
I know several immigrants that put down more
dependents on their W-4 to have less taxes deducted on
their payroll checks so that at the end of the year,
upon receipt of their W-2, it shows having paid hardly
any federal and state income taxes (where state taxes
are applicable).
What Brenda fails to realize is that upon immigrants
filing their taxes, they have to put down by name all
of their dependents with their respective SSN or TIN
on their 1040A. Most don't put down all of their
dependents due to the dependents not having a SSN or
TIN.
Oftentimes, the single immigrant who puts down several
dependents and only paid $100.00 on an income of
$18,000.00, ends up paying over $1,000.00 in taxes
because insufficient taxes were not taken from his
check to cover what taxes he owes.
Uncle Sam gets us eventually, Brenda, and he gets
these individuals also. If they don't pay up front,
they end up paying at tax time.
Tino Aleman, paralegal |
