Civic Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area
Contributing Organization(s): Urban Institute
Author(s)/Creator(s): Randolph Capps; Everett Henderson; Jeffrey S. Passel; Michael E. Fix
Publishing Date: 2006-06-01
Issue Areas: Employment and Labor; Immigration
Ownership/Rights Info: Copyright 2006. The Urban Institute. All Rights Reserved. Except for short quotes, no part of this report may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by information storage or retrieval system, without written permission form the Urban Institute.
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This report estimates the taxes paid by immigrants in the Washington, D.C., area in 1999-2000 and documents their demographics, household composition, income, and dispersal across jurisdictions in the region. The findings in this report are based mostly on analysis of 2000 U.S. Census data, because the census provides the most recent comprehensive data that allow disaggregation by country of origin groups and by many of the region's local jurisdictions. The demographic data in the report are updated through 2004 using the U.S. Current Population Survey. We calculate taxes at both the individual level (e.g., income and payroll taxes) and the household level (e.g., property taxes), but aggregate them up to the household level. Throughout the report we refer to households headed by immigrants (whether citizens, legal immigrants, or unauthorized migrants) as "immigrant households" and compare their incomes and tax payments to households headed by native-born U.S. citizens.
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