H.R. 6813 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that wages paid to unauthorized aliens may not be deducted from gross income.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log inNew IDEA (Illegal Deduction Elimination Act) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to editdeny a tax deduction for wages and benefits paid to or on behalf of an unauthorized alien.

Directs the wikiCommissioner of Social Security and be the firstSecretaries of Homeland Security and the Treasury to providejointly establish a detailed summaryprogram to share information that may lead to the identification of unauthorized aliens. Requires the bill!)Secretary of the Treasury to provide taxpayer identity information to the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security on employers who paid nondeductible wages to unauthorized aliens and on the aliens to whom such wages were paid.

Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to: (1) make permanent the pilot program for verifying the employment eligibility of alien workers (E-Verify Program); (2) apply such program to current employees in addition to new hires; and (3) establish a rebuttable presumption that employers who participate in the pilot program have not violated the prohibition against continued employment of unauthorized aliens.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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(LogLatest Major Action: 8/1/2008: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to edit the wikiCommittees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the first to updateSpeaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the statusjurisdiction of the bill!)committee concerned.
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