I’m sure there must have been a time in my life when a story like this would have surprised me — sadly, it’s just another commonplace story that I’ve heard many times. Eh, it’s only $3.8 million. Just think of all the other perpetrators out there who aren’t getting caught.
I understand how one can file multiple tax returns .
What I don’t understand is how one person can cash checks without hundreds of matching photo ID’s.
I know there is direct deposit, but these refunds were mailed to addresses, If I read the article correctly.
Now, wait a minute. They only come here to work, right?
Maybe work the system, that is.
Just 1 question ...
Is Candida Mayo Figueroa a US Citizen, or an illegal that is stealing from the American taxpayer?
The first paragraph of that story reads: WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday. They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID thieves' pockets over the next five years. I wish I had been there when the investigators estimated the loses over the next three years at that level. They seem rather complacent about something which should be stopped not measured. I recommend that Romney and Ryan shine a light on this incompetence, along with some light (and heat) regarding the USPS situation and the bad green energy loans.
No biggie...just another one of Obama’s community organizing bundlers. Is this case going to be sealed?
Don’t steal. The government doesn’t like the competition.
Then every once in a while, it might be an inside job.
From 2010:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469252/posts
IRS employee in Memphis indicted on tax charges
Next up-—prisoners with a hobby: tax fraud
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/01/eveningnews/main7107698.shtml
Dec. 1, 2010
Inmates Commit $130 Million in Tax Fraud in 2009
Prisoners Use Basic Tax Forms to Claim Phony Income or Tax Credits, Often With no Supporting Documents
-—AND-—
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010
Even Prisoners Get Homebuyer Tax Break
Prison-Bound Filers Among 14,000 First-Time Homebuyer Applicants Who Wrongly Got $27M in Credit
Teamwork is great:
June 2011: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28224713/detail.html
ID Theft Suspect Says She Had Help Inside Post Office
Duluth Woman Pleads Guilty To ID Theft
Summary:
In this article a shady tax preparer teams up with Post Office employees to collect thousands of refund checks.
Put in place a 10% Federal Sales Tax collected on all retail sales except food, primary housing, the energy to heat/cool/light that housing, and medical care.
Collect it at the point of sale, no refunds needed, no (pr)ebate checks which would be just as subject to this sort of fraud as the current system.
If that can't fund the Government, it's time to cut the size and scope of the Federal Government (as if it isn't anyway).
bttt
The list grows by leaps and bounds. The hispanics are so God-fearing and conservative these people must be anglos pretending to be hispanics.
Investigators said they sent five addresses to the IRS, which linked 804 individual income tax returns to those addresses.
Wow those IRS folks sure on the ball,our tax dollars at work.
/s
For a photo of the woman charged, go here:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/11/3448695/charlotte-woman-accused-in-38.html
She will be tagged and released back into the wild in no time.