And often, they pay the lowest taxes they can by claiming 9-11 exemptions and then never file so their tax percentage is extremely low - if they pay at all. Here we pay up front by declaring what we 'think' we will owe and then either get a refund or pay more when we file in April.



>>>>I'm all for guest visas. Make sure everyone who comes here pays for what I pay for - especially TAXES under their REAL identity and NOT MINE.
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>>>But think about it - if they pay their taxes and social security dues under false names and SSNs, they get nothing out of it. They cannot claim that they were paying. Only yesterday I've heard yesterday that there's about 2 billion of unclaimed tax returns every year - I figure at least 75% of that is coming from those paying taxes anonymously.
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>>Do you mean "unclaimed tax rebates"? In GB a "return" is what you send to the tax man, not what he "returns" to you.
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>Speaking local English, you "file a tax return [form]" and later you do get it, i.e. they do return some money to you.
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>I don't have any opinion on this - there may or may not be any logic to it.