Mexico: Many Mexicans with work visas avoid taxes

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

PROGRAM #10602 12:00 PM PT 

Mexico Edition. 

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans travel to the US on work visas, and most of them do not file their taxes. Some, even if married, register as single, thereby depriving themselves of receiving tax refunds. If they filed taxes for ten years, they would create rights to earn a retirement pension from Social Security. Can an ITIN tax filing history help the process to become a resident of the US? Can contracted migrant workers qualify for retirement benefits? Can they receive tax credits? Can the ITIN be used to locate noncitizens and deport them? These and other questions are discussed with tax preparers. In other news, political analysts talk about the changes to be expected in US-Mexico relations after Trump takes over the White House.

Guest: Roman Bock, President, Association of Tamaulipecos in Texas, and Founder, Jaguar Tax Pros, Houston, TX; excerpts from recent statements by Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and Mexico’s Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard.

Photo: Evgenia Parajanian/Adobe Stock

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