New study shows workers "often pay taxes that are dedicated to funding programs from which they are barred from participating because of their immigration status."
At the state and local levels, slightly less than half (46 percent, or $15.1 billion) of the tax payments made by undocumented immigrants are through sales and excise taxes levied on their purchases. Most other payments are made through property taxes, such as those levied on homeowners and renters (31 percent, or $10.4 billion), or through personal and business income taxes (21 percent, or $7.0 billion).
This isn’t really showing much except that sales taxes are extremely regressive, which is already a well-known fact that people don’t pay nearly enough attention to.
Note that this does not apply to federal taxes.
This isn’t really showing much except that sales taxes are extremely regressive, which is already a well-known fact that people don’t pay nearly enough attention to.