AT EVERY TURN!
Posted on 10/01/2014 12:19:49 PM PDT by george76
It's hard to keep up with the privacy-threatening shenanigans at the Internal Revenue Service, but let's give it a try. Just days after revealing that the tax agency's failure to follow its own rules put the private data of 1.4 million people at risk, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration publicized the sentencing of Tax Examining Technician Missy Sledge for aggravated identity theft and mail fraud, and IRS employee Monica Hernandez for making and subscribing a false income tax return, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
According to the Inspector General's Office, "as part of her official IRS duties, Sledge had access to taxpayers’ personal identifiers, including names, Social Security Numbers (SSN), dates of birth, and addresses, as well as information about tax professionals. Sledge used this access in furtherance of an identity theft scheme which included the filing of fraudulent tax returns and the subsequent theft of refunds."
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But that was last month. This month, we hear about former IRS employee Taylor Knight who "inappropriately accessed information maintained by the IRS for three taxpayers, in each case for her personal reasons and not for official Government business. The defendants then used the identifications of these three taxpayers to fraudulently induce the IRS into issuing tax refund payments."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
HA! They’ll never steal mine, they’d be stuck with the bill.
No matter which way you look at it the place is still the District of Criminals.
Organized crime syndicate.
And CONGRESS could fix it all overnight if they wanted too, which should tell you all you need to know about YOUR CONGRESS CRITTER.
I make sure that I owe them at tax time, not the other way around.
Never give them an interest free loan and more.
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