re: 1.4 million illegals working under stolen Social Security numbers: Audit -Washington Times

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Well if I understand this correctly not necessarily, they could be having taxes automatically taken out of their check but not all employers do this. At the end of the year you may be paying their taxes if they are using your SS#

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This really can't happen, because a social security can only be used to file one return. So the system wouldn't accept a second return and take taxes out by one return out of a refund of another, or anything like that.

As far as employees hiring illegals and not paying income taxes goes, if that were the case, why would those illegals need social numbers then? Of course their taxes are being paid, they simply can't file at the end of the year, because that is how they would get caught.

Unbelievable that there isn't a system in place that immediately detects if the same number is paying payroll taxes in through the year.........