Study: Md. immigrants pay $275M in taxes

This recent study shows that immigrants do pay taxes and are not a drain on the economy where they live. - - Donna Poisl

Posted by John Fritze

Illegal immigrants in Maryland will pay $275 million in state and local taxes this year, according to a study released Monday by a Washington group that advocates for immigrants. The report ranks Maryland as the 11th-highest state in the nation in collecting tax receipts from unauthorized immigrants.

Maryland comes in after California, Florida and New York but ahead of Nevada and New Mexico. The state will collect $76 million in state income taxes, $22 million in property taxes and $177 million in sales taxes in the 2010 tax year, according to the Immigration Policy Center study. In all, the group estimates that households headed by illegal immigrants will pay $11.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2010.
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