do alaskan residents get tax money paid to them for simply being a resident?
88104
I think you may be thinking of the royalty checks that every resident gets annually, out of the oil royalties account (Alaska Permanent Fund) started after oil was found in the North Slope in the 1970s.  It's about $1,000 a year--but considering the cost of living in Alaska, I'd think twice about moving there just to pick up a check...
1085421
Heck yeah they should!  Not only do most not have to, but they also get money from the government.  I live by several reservations and some of the stuff that goes on with them irritates the heck out of me.  I can see how what happened to the indians in the past was wrong, but it wasn't me who did it and it wasn't the ones alive today or even their parents who it happened to, so why should I have to pay them (through my taxes)?  It sucks!
59553
yes, we have to pay taxes just like everyone else. If we have a job we have to pay taxes, own a house, pay property taxes.  Except on the reservation which is native american owned, it is exempt from taxes as long as it is recognized as Indian property by the US Government.
759598
No. Payment of taxes, residency, and voting are completely separate issues. Voting, participating in the government of a country, is properly restricted to citizens of that country. In fact, by law, an American citizen who votes in another country's elections forfeits his American citizenship.
470744
you would pay taxes in the state you live in
122332
No, we pay taxes to the government.
309715
im 1/3 native and it pretty much means jack $hit, we do get medical care 4 free at local hospitals though and up untill recently regular cops couldnt come on 2 our land only cherokee marshals, it may still be like that in some states but not oklahoma\n\nwe still pay taxes we shouldnt though
25550
Based on IRS publication 513, it appears that resident aliens working in the US are subject to income tax, but not social security tax.  However, I'd recommend a more  thorough look at the IRS website to be certain.
28834
No.  They have very few differnt taxes.  But the tax revenues are maed on the back of real estate, and property taxes are extremely high.  Also, because many NH residents work in MA, you must pay MA state income tax (5.5%).
192430
Yes they do, but you can deduct foriegn tax off of the net owed up to $300.  So if you would normally owe $250 and paid $300 in foriegn tax, then you wouldn't owe the IRS anything.  If they see large amount of money floating around in your accounts without the proper paperwork, they get suspicious.
265461
Yep, same as any place else.  They may enjoy tax relief due to nonprofit status, but your income from them is taxable just as any other income.
111639
I work in several different states each year.  I live in TN but worked in CT and NC last year.  Both states collect income taxes.  I had to file a non-resident state income tax form with each state and will receive a refund for any overpaid ammounts.  Search the state of PA's website and I'm sure you find a link for their tax information.  If you did not work in NY you should not have to pay NY taxes,  HOWEVER, you should check with the state just to be sure.  Hope this helps.
158536
No.  I have a social security number and I'm not a US citizen -- but I am a permanent resident (aka "green card").  I've also been paying social security taxes for about thirty years, and I'll be able to collect social security when I retire.\n\nIf I remember correctly, I got one as soon as I started paying taxes, which was while I was a graduate student.\n\nYou can also get a "taxpayer number" which is in the same format but is ONLY for paying taxes and associated activities -- for example, you need one to open a bank account, in case you earn interest.  My brother has one of those and he lives in Sydney.
762407
There is no state income nor any state sales tax in Alaska (some localities have a sales tax though).  We put a royality on pumped oil instead.  Some of that money goes into a "Permenant Fund" and dividends ("PFD"s) go out to state residents.  \n\nYou have to have been here for the previous calendar year (or been born in the last calender year) to receive it in October.  This year it was $1106.96 to every man, woman and child.  Just for taking up space.  Not surprisingly, when getting paid to just take up space, that is what some people do.\n\nI'd rather it was used for education and infrastructure, but free money is such a popular concept, it is political sacred and will never go away.\n\nThere was homesteading in Alaska decades ago and it really took off after WWII.  Guys who found it too crowded in North Dakota passed through during the war and wanted to come back.  No longer the case, for many years.  But it lives on in the popular imagination and in various internet /marketting scams.\n\nI do know people who bought 5 forested acres far back on a dirt road for $3,000 or so.  So I suppose there is some truth in the combined concept: Take the free money and use it buy cheap land.  And, if you don't mind a snowy 500-foot dirt-road driveway, shitting in an outhouse at -30F, and heating with wood you cut and split all by yourself, you can live on that land pretty cheapily.  I know people who do that to, but they usually stop when they 1) grow up around age 35 or 2) get/want a girlfriend.  But some keep at it.\n\nHope that helps.
518094
Federal - yes\nState - if they are a resident of the state.
907368
I think you just pay her and she pays the taxes like an independant contractor does.  I think.
1036281
All the same!\n\nFor people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:\n\nThe Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. \n\nIn 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. \n\nAlaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. \nSource(s):\nhttp://www.earthrights.net/docs/oilrent.... \n\nOil is just 1 of thousands of commodities, with all the thousands of commidities in your state why aren't you getting paid?\n\nWith feds resources why can't feds pay 50 times better than Alaska?\n\nKuwait pays this way $58,000 y no rent, utilities, phone, hospital bills\nDubia pays this way\nNorway I've heard has a similar system\nI hear Nigeria is working on doing this\n\nHOW FAR WILL YOU, YOUR KIDS, AND GRANDCHILDREN GET LEFT BEHIND IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE IF THE US DOES START A SYSTEM OF THIS KIND FOR THE US PEOPLE?\n\nARE WE TO BE PAUPER THIRD CLASS WORLD CITIZENS WHEN YOUR GRANDCHILDREN START TO WORK?\n\nDO WE SLIDE FROM THE RICHEST NATION TO THE POOREST IN YOUR LIFETIME BECAUSE YOU LACK THE COURAGE, NERVE, OR BACKBONE TO TAKE ACTION NOW WHEN IT'S NEEDED?\n\nVOTE! VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT DEMS OR REPS!\nTHEY ARE IN POWER AND HAVE THE CONTROL THEY MUST BEAR ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT!