A friend of mine told me that while doing taxes this year he actually had someone call him for advice that said his girlfriend had him take her and her child as dependents on his retrun with the idea that they would split the money. Now she wants him to give her more money or she is going to report him to the IRS. Are people really this dumb?
The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t know how many identity thieves are filing fraudulent tax returns, and the agency risks issuing approximately $26 billion in fraudulent tax refunds tied to identity theft in the next five years, a watchdog told lawmakers Tuesday.
The IRS received 2.2 million fraudulent tax returns in 2011 and found that 940,000 of the returns, with $6.5 billion in associated fraudulent refunds, involved identity theft, according to..."
Smells like more of the concerted effort to destroy the US. As if the IRS doesn’t have the means to flag returns that show new addresses, different family members and new jobs from past years. A certain number of changes from last year should cause it to be flagged.
How about we work on curing the disease instead of worrying about symptoms!
We will never again be a truly free people for so long as we continue to abide the communist inspired, class warfare inducing, INCOME tax and the IRS!
gobmint fraud ping....
There is an easy simple solution to all this.
Abolish the income tax and dismantle the IRS. Institute a flat or fair tax.
It REALLY is that simple. But of course our so called “leaders” and “lawmakers” don’t want to do it because it would strip them of the control they have over the populace.
Absolutely no surprise here. My father-in-law passed away last Fall. When my Mother-in-law filed her taxes this year, the IRS notified her that a tax return had already been filed using his SS#.
IT took a rather long-roundabout journey and battle to get her taxes re-filed, along with a copy of his death certificate, and many calls to the IRS. Was a major pain.
Yet no word on any attempts to actually tack down who used his SS# (or how they got it). Where is all the news on prosecution of these criminals?
Its all because the IRS is more concerned with nailing the average “Joe” for incorrectly counting some mileage or depreciation, thus making him owe an extra $50 plus a couple hundred in interest and penalties... all while these frauds are ripping the IRS for $billions by simply filing fraudulent returns.
The very crime my deceased FIL was the victim of, is the exact “fix” the IRS supposedly implemented before returns began being processed this year... and what crashed their servers. More of that wonderfully ineffective government work.