Posted on 06/21/2013 5:02:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
June 21, 2013
(CNSNews.com) - The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically occupied by thousands of “unauthorized” alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds in 2011. In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year, four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax refunds to “unauthorized” aliens were in Atlanta.
The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.
Other locations on the IG’s Top Ten list for singular addresses that were theoretically used simultaneously by thousands of unauthorized alien workers, included an address in Oxnard, Calif, where the IRS sent 2,507 refunds worth $10,395,874; an address in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the IRS sent 2,408 refunds worth $7,284,212; an address in Phoenix, Ariz., where the IRS sent 2,047 refunds worth $5,558,608; an address in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the IRS sent 1,972 refunds worth $2,256,302; an address in San Jose, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,942 refunds worth $5,091,027; and an address in Arvin, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,846 refunds worth $3,298,877.
Since 1996, the IRS has issued what it calls Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to two classes of persons: 1) non-resident aliens who have a tax liability in the United States, and 2) aliens living in the United States who are “not authorized to work in the United States.”
The IRS has long known it was giving these numbers to illegal aliens, and thus facilitating their ability to work illegally in the United States. For example, the Treasury Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress published on Oct. 29, 1999—nearly fourteen years ago—specifically drew attention to this problem.
“The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to undocumented aliens to improve nonresident alien compliance with tax laws. This IRS practice seems counter-productive to the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) mission to identify undocumented aliens and prevent unlawful alien entry,” TIGTA warned in that long-ago report.
The inspector general’s 2012 audit report on the IRS’s handling of ITINs was spurred by two IRS employees who went to member of Congress "alleging that IRS management was requiring employees to assign Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) even when the applications were fraudulent.”
In an August 2012 press release accompanying the audit report, TIGTA said the report “validated” the complaints of the IRS employees.
“TIGTA’s audit found that IRS management has not established adequate internal controls to detect and prevent the assignment of an ITIN to individuals submitting questionable applications,” said Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George. “Even more troubling, TIGTA found an environment which discourages employees from detecting fraudulent applications.”
In addition to the 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 that the IRS sent to a single address in Atlanta, the IG also discovered that the IRS had assigned 15,796 ITINs to unauthorized aliens who presumably resided at a single Atlanta address.
The IRS, according to TIGTA, also assigned ITINs to 15,028 unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Dallas, Texas, and 10,356 to unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Atlantic City, N.J.
Perhaps the most remarkable act of the IRS was this: It assigned 6,411 ITINs to unauthorized aliens presumably using a single address in Morganton, North Carolina. According to the 2010 Census, there were only 16,681 people in Morganton. So, for the IRS to have been correct in issuing 6,411 ITINS to unauthorized aliens at a single address Morganton it would have meant that 38 percent of the town’s total population were unauthorized alien workers using a single address.
TIGTA said there were 154 addresses around the country that appeared on 1,000 or more ITIN applications made to the IRS.
The fact that the poor mailman need fifteen trucks per
day to deliver the checks to a single address appears to
have had the same impact as the BOSTON terrorists’ families’
and Russia’s pre-warnings.
NOTHING TO SEE. The invasion by al Qaeda after the
911 Atrocities is on.
no one has programmed the database to notice more than one check going to the same address???
“The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga”
That’s a flippin’ crime by the IRS. Georgia needs to send SWAT teams to the homes of these IRS criminals in the middle of the night. If you can’t do that, get on your knees to be fitted for chains.
If George Washington were president now, there wouldn’t be any rope left in any hardware store in the nation by now. Just damn..
sfl
You’d think that an ordinary computer program would filter these claims out.
Oy Vey!
They can keep track of my boring emails and blog posts but fail to notice millions in tax refunds going to the same address!?
If 5,000 people showed up at the Treasury Department DEMANDING the Citizen’s Arrest of the IRS Commissioner for allowing this to happen, what would happen? And I don’t mean ask, I mean D*E*M*A*N*D.
March in, take him into custody, and deliver him to the Justice Department.
What would they do?
What a great boost to the US economy. Times are good and looking better- day by day.
Must have missed covering that at the line dancing school/vacation/party down/seminar/ get together they attended that we paid for.
They might cover that on the next one or maybe not.
Non-white immigrants and native born Blacks make up almost 44% of Georgia's population.
When Amnesty passes, Georgia will vote Democrat.
Not surprised at all to see Palm Beach Gardens on the list. They are Guatemalans, not Mexicans.
Does it really matter who is who? Theft is theft and you paid for it!
Who’s to say that MUCH of that loot didn’t actually wind up in the pockets of IRS agents scamming the system through alias names? I do not believe they mindlessly pumped that much money to one address unless there was something in it for a lot of the agents themselves! And since NOTHING that IRS agents do EVER gets punished, and there’s NO discernable accountability, I believe it all the more.
That’s far more likely.
Rofl!
Hey Senor. I don’t think we are going to be able to afford 33.1 million more illegal aliens cruising along the FreeWay to “Citizenship”.
That’s exactly what they are. At one time we employed guys with TIN numbers, but you have to assume that they got every penny of witholding and then a LOT more back every year.
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