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Grayling813 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 7:55 am The State of Texas knows your earnings due to your employer having to report them to pay payroll taxes to the state. It appears that information is available to TWC whether you have file unemployment claims or not.

Austin has a deep state swamp just like DC, with entrenched bureaucrats undermining the Republic.

Dang. Having never paid payroll taxes in Texas it never dawned on me that the Texas Workforce Commission would be the collecting entity, but, yeah: https://www.twc.texas.gov/businesses/re ... able-wages. I guess I was thinking more of "Texas Workforce Solutions." I've met some TWC staff before, even once presented at a conference where they also did, and all this time I thought they were about jobs and unemployment, not tracking and collecting payroll taxes.

Edited to add: Closer to home for me, independent contractor payments are not reported to the state: https://www.twc.texas.gov/businesses/cl ... ontractors. But Texas uses a 20-point checklist to determine who is and isn't a contractor vs. an employee, so it isn't as simple as whether or not the person's income is reported to the IRS via 1099.

Hm. I wonder what percentage of Texans (and the subset, gun-owning Texans) have filed for unemployment recently enough for the TWC to have data on them. And I wonder what "recently enough" means or what the relevance would be by date. In other words, if someone filed for unemployment in early 2021 at the height of the pandemic, does the TWC still have that on file; what about an unemployment filing from 2018; and would they send outdated information to the BATF (and how would it be relevant if the person is now gainfully employed years later)?

That said, the way things are going it wouldn't shock me to eventually learn that, despite federal regulations, the IRS (Department of the Treasury, in the Executive branch) is sharing information with the DOJ.