@NCperson
If you insist on nit-picking my posts on this topic, I will accept the challenge of debating you.
No where have I said that my wife, who had an ITIN until just recently, deserved the stimulus payment.
However, I...as an American citizen...did deserve it. You got it, didn't you...Mr. Taxpayer @NCperson?
The argument that Married Filing Jointly where one person has a Social Security number and the other an ITIN fails the "fairness test."
Am I to understand that the IRS could not sort out who had Social Security numbers and send those individuals a stimulus check? That's impossible to believe.
Even though I filed Married Filing Jointly, the IRS could have (and should have) put in a filter for those with spouses having an ITIN...and sent me, the American citizen taxpayer, the same $1200 that you got this year.
Whose fault is it that they did not? Does it even matter? I assume that the IRS had been an active participant in the CARES act discussion as it was being formulated with Congress. We're paying for some real geniuses in Washington DC, aren't we? 😕
If you continue to argue in favor of the bloated and woefully inept IRS and US government, then go ahead...but you will lose credibility.
I consider the exclusionary rule of the Married Filing Jointly with an ITIN as a great injustice to me personally. This news of the "Recovery Rebate" more than pleases me. My foreign-born wife who now has a Social Security number is now going to get the $1200, too!
So thank you, Mr. Taxpayer @NCperson. We will enjoy every one of those dollar bills when they get delivered to us sometime in March 2021.
I would have been happy if it had only been me getting the $1200 earlier this year like most everyone else...just saying. So would a lot of other Americans who were excluded, I imagine.
So hat's off to those in the IRS and US government for giving a few of us the opportunity to still get that CARES act stimulus check in a round about way. Just desserts...yummy!
