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Updated: 6:43 AM May 12, 2008
Stimulus Rebate Excludes Some Taxpayers With Foreign Spouses
Soldiers based abroad are among the hundreds of thousands of taxpayers missing out on the tax rebates going out to millions of others to stimulate the economy.
Posted: 8:54 PM May 11, 2008Reporter: Associated Press |
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Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers from legal immigrants to soldiers based abroad are missing out on the tax rebates going out to millions of others to stimulate the economy.
That's because of a provision that was intended to keep illegal immigrants from getting rebates.
When lawmakers decided to send out the checks, they formulated it so only taxpayers who have Social Security numbers would qualify.
The rule caught many taxpayers who would have qualified, except they filed jointly with a spouse whose immigration status doesn't allow them to have a Social Security number. Among them are some of the 288,000 troops stationed overseas who may have married a foreigner.
One California lawmaker says a "soldier not getting that check is stupid."
A military officer says they can't do anything about IRS policy.
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I'm wondering why dead people are getting the stimulas checks... this is alot of money going on our national debt and you can bet the dead people are not going to be helping to repay it.
if they did not marry the outsider that doesnt have a SS card they could get it. plain and simple
This is the craziest i've ever heard. Being married to a soldier who is overseas this is biased. The lawmakers should not excluded any service member and their spouse because they are not from the us, they still have to pay taxes like every one else.
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