IRS audited 69% of filers claiming child adoption tax credit

Hotair ^ | 05/23/2013 | Ed Morrissey

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[Labyrinthos]

Of the completed adoption tax credit audits, over 55 percent ended with no change in the tax owed or refund due in fiscal year 2012.

If I'm reading this correctly, 45% of the audits resulted in additional tax being owed. If so, then it seems to me that this is a high return audit area for an IRS agent looking for a bonus -- similar to the high return resulting from audits of taxpayers who claim a home office deduction or a large deduction for unreimbursed employment expenses.

[ChildOfThe60s]

wrongdoing = committing crimes

Let’s eliminate the use of the chicken$hit word “wrongdoing” when describing liberals and government.

Ditto for “misstatement”. It’s lying.

Both words should be ripped from contemporary lexicon.

[JoeProBono]

[SunshinesStormySummerSon]

Thank you for your post. We, too, were audited because of the adoption credit. The most frustrating part of the process - besides the fact that it took nearly a year and that we had so many requests for additional information that we were starting to wonder if the IRS was going to ask us to send them our child next - was the number of conflicting responses we received via phone and mail and the number of locations we had to submit paperwork to. None of the individuals we spoke to seemed to know anything about what we’d been told by others. We received letters from different offices that contradicted each other. Sometimes we received contradictory letters from the same office. Even after the audit was finished and we had received our refund, we received a letter asking for additional information; evidently accurate lines of communication within the agency is a challenge.

Until reading your post, we assumed our experience was very unusual. How troubling to learn otherwise - especially now that the citizens of our great Nation must face the dysfunction of this agency as it oversees the implementation of Obamacare.

[left that other site]

Well...
Adoption is the sane, moral, and decent alternative to abortion, which is the demoncrats’ holy sacrament.

[Agamemnon]

Could it be it was the threat of audit of John Roberts on account of his own adopted children that caused the vote switch in favor of Obamacare .... FReegards!

[Godwin1]

Hard luck or unwanted kids are supposed to be aborted, not delivered and adopted. Every adoption is a revenue loss for Planned Parenthood and lesser abortion industry firms that make money by killing the pre-born. And these firms form the very core of Democrat political support.