The bastards at the IRS are screwing people yet again. Especially Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines who have foreign wives with green cards.
What you ask? Well for many women, the way to happiness and legal permanent residency is to meet, screw the brains out of romance, and marry a serviceman and thus gain a fast track to US permanent alien status. In the process they aquire a Taxpayer ID number. Like a social security number in length, it is however, not a Social Security number.
And now the IRS is using it to screw over a lot of married people who live overseas.
Yes you guessed it. The same assh$$les who deny American government workers the right to claim the overseas tax exclusion used by contractors, is screwing a lot of deserving Americans out of their “tax stimulus” checks:
“Taxpayers with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) instead of [a Social Security number] are not eligible to receive a stimulus payment,” reads a posting on the Internal Revenue Service’s Web site. “Both people listed on a ‘married filing jointly’ return must have valid SSNs to qualify for the payment.
“If only one has a valid SSN, neither can receive the payment,” according to the IRS.
At the tax center in Baumholder, Germany, workers learned on March 17 about the glitch.
“The problem is we found out too late,” said Alisha Brenckle, a Baumholder tax clerk.
Sheila Reed, who works at Command Navy Region Europe in Naples, Italy, has a husband with an ITIN.
“I don’t feel this is fair because I pay taxes like any other U.S. citizen. I just found out about this today, and sent an e-mail to the IRS,” she said. “It’s not right. I have three kids.”
Many U.S. military members who marry foreigners use an ITIN for their spouses on tax forms. The couples can file joint returns, listing a Social Security number for the servicemember and an ITIN for the foreign spouse.
Useless bastards!
The longer article in the paper pointed out (not in the internet version) that “it was never intended to give aliens the rebate”.
And why is that exactly? If they are legal and paying taxes-what is the difference? They still can stimulate the economy.
When it comes to the military, the IRS is a very veteran unfriendly organization. Military retirement? taxed. Military pay is taxed-which for what ever reasons which really eludes me………….
The IRS whines about tax free zones-ask DOD!
And just try deducting your wardroom bill as what it is-a mandatory business expense!
Dicks!