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IRS Documented 1.3M Identity Thefts by Illegal Aliens; Can’t Say It Referred Any for Prosecution
CNS News ^ | March 16, 2018 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 03/16/2018 3:27:42 PM PDT by Zakeet

The Internal Revenue Service in 2011 through 2016 documented more than 1.3 million cases of identity theft perpetrated by illegal aliens whom the IRS had given Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN), which are only given to people who are ineligible to work in the United States or receive Social Security Numbers, according to information published by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

However, in response to inquiries from CNSNews.com, the IRS could not say if it had referred even one of these cases for criminal prosecution.

TIGTA, which is the inspector general responsible for overseeing the IRS, discovered another approximately 1.2 million cases in 2017 in which an illegal alien working in the United States had filed a tax return reporting wages that had been earned using a Social Security Number that belonged to someone else or was fabricated.

Yet the IRS also could not say whether it referred any of these cases for criminal prosecution.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; identitytheft; illegalaliens; illegalscrimes; immigration; irs
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You Freepers need to keep telling yourselves ... government is good and we should be glad that all those civil servants who are protecting us!!

1 posted on 03/16/2018 3:27:42 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Haven’t you gotten it yet? Illegal aliens don’t have to obey the laws of the USA, only you “stupid Americans.” Just ask your democrap and rino legislature.


2 posted on 03/16/2018 3:31:46 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS

ping


3 posted on 03/16/2018 3:35:40 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: Zakeet

How about asking the IRS how many $ in refunds went to those, identified as bogus, tax returns?


4 posted on 03/16/2018 3:36:20 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: Zakeet
Asked to explain those practices, Koskinen replied, "What happens in these situations is someone is using a Social Security number to get a job, but they're filing their tax return with their [taxpayer identification number]." What that means, he said, is that "they are undocumented aliens … . They're paying taxes. It's in everybody's interest to have them pay the taxes they owe."

As long as the information is being used only to fraudulently obtain jobs, Koskinen said, rather than to claim false tax returns, the agency has an interest in helping them. "The question is whether the Social Security number they're using to get the job has been stolen. It's not the normal identity theft situation," he said.

5 posted on 03/16/2018 3:36:54 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

The Obama IRS—Ain’t it great??


6 posted on 03/16/2018 3:37:02 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Zakeet

Fedzilla has been assisting the illegal alien inundation since the George H.W. Bush administration.


7 posted on 03/16/2018 3:38:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Zakeet

The IRS wasn’t doing nothing.

They were busy harassing conservative organizations and Republicans in general.

There were hundreds of those cases. Think they’d waste time identifying foreign criminals in the country illegally?

Those are their people: the enemy haters of the Americans.


8 posted on 03/16/2018 3:42:54 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Zakeet

Didn’t the SCOTUS say it was okay for them to steal ID’s and use SSS#’s from somebody else?


9 posted on 03/16/2018 3:46:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Isn’t Koskinen still head of the IRS? Why aren’t we asking Trump why?


10 posted on 03/16/2018 3:47:12 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Zakeet

Yep, the right price, the right agent, the right when it is left and you each give up more rights


11 posted on 03/16/2018 3:49:05 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: Zakeet
Decades of illegal immigration have badly compromised our government and the country's financial systems. This is exactly why President Eisenhower launched "Operation Wetback" in the 1950s. He knew it was a corrupting influence.

https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

12 posted on 03/16/2018 3:51:52 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Who cares ???? Stand by ... I will ask congress ... they love American citizens and would never lie to US


13 posted on 03/16/2018 3:54:58 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: CMailBag

This has been going on for decades. It was just as bad under bush.


14 posted on 03/16/2018 4:00:06 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Zakeet

Much of that money paid in may never be paid out. The upside down Social Security Admin. will gladly look the other way. As for the IRS cutting checks they could care less, it isn’t there money and they are completely corrupt anyway. FUBOB.


15 posted on 03/16/2018 4:03:00 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: raybbr

Laughter and celebratory gunfire !!!


16 posted on 03/16/2018 4:03:30 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: Zakeet

The entire Federal government needs a SERIOUS frakin’ overhaul and house cleaning cause it is apparent that the Federal government does not even know its right hand from its left. Goshdamn frakin’ beyond infuriating!


17 posted on 03/16/2018 4:07:39 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Zakeet

God knows how many Americans have had their identities stolen by multiple illegal aliens. Jose tells Juan “use this social security number and name, it works for me.”


18 posted on 03/16/2018 4:12:35 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: SERKIT

So essentially he is openly admitting to being part of a RICO conspiracy with open participation and here admission of the Federal Government accepting false information and then distributing back to the participants funds most likely in essence a refund of most if not all they paid minus a “handling charge” by the IRS.

Rotten Ba$tards


19 posted on 03/16/2018 4:19:14 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: sheana

Nope - He’s out and I don’t believe there’s been anyone else named to be confirmed...not that I’ve heard anyway.

John Koskinen December 23, 2013[13] November 9, 2017
David Kautter (Acting) November 13, 2017

This whole situation would be laughable if it didn’t make you want to pull your hair out. Legal citizens/workers LET illegal friends use their SS #’s for job purposes and probably a lot more. The person who lets it happen is having the wages the illegal person earned added to his SS earnings thus increasing HIS benefits and the illegal gets
nothing - EXCEPT - when he can file a tax return and get all the taxes back that were withheld but no doubt had already claimed the maximum amount of exemptions and had nothing withheld.

How’s that for a run on sentence and explanation?

I saw this happen when I worked for a CPA in CA who had restaurants as clients and notices came in constantly from the Franchise Tax Board - “this SS# number does not belong to this person”! The employer was told to straighten it out but by no means should any intimidation or threat of termination take place! No SIREE!! Don’t you dare!!


20 posted on 03/16/2018 4:25:38 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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