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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1469212" data-attributes="member: 12952">Oklahoma Shows the Way to Collect Taxes from Illegals — Again It is widely agreed that many illegal aliens work in the underground (cash) economy and do not pay state and federal income taxes as a result. (Some do, of course, but a lot of money is missing).Oklahoma does something about it. It has a 1 percent wire transfer fee that is collected on all personal wire transfers of cash to accounts outside the state. This past fiscal year it collected $10,502,470.17 from this source, up more than 7 percent from the previous year.Not all of these receipts came from illegal aliens sending remittances to their home countries, of course, but a significant share came from this source.What is particularly interesting about these receipts is that these fees are, in fact, withholdings for the state income tax — and thus a wire transfer fee costs nothing unless you fail to pay your state income taxes. But, <a href="http://www.cis.org/north/us-could-raise-1-2-billion-year-illegals-copying-oklahoma" target="_blank">as we reported</a> about the state's finances in 2013, 96 percent of these moneys were not applied to state income tax returns, so Oklahoma has found a way to collect a tax that falls almost exclusively on tax evaders!<a href="http://www.cis.org/north/oklahoma-shows-way-collect-taxes-illegals-again" target="_blank">http://www.cis.org/north/oklahoma-shows-way-collect-taxes-illegals-again</a></blockquote>

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