[speekinout]

I will go off to look for the reference, but a story that appeared rather recently refers to a man who was processing IRS returns for Blacks so they could get "reparations".
He's in jail, of course. But if the IRS doesn't "audit" the returns, they simply pay what you claim. They paid these phony "reparations" for a surprising number of Blacks, and many of them were lower income.
The IRS is now "auditing" the returns for people they think are making the claim (and, no, I don't know what his scheme was, how so many got away with it, or how the IRS knows which returns to audit). But this scheme has certainly resulted in thousands more audits for lowerincome tax payers.

[razorback-bert]

Scam artists are bilking African-Americans nationwide by charging them for information about a phony “slave reparation” tax credit, the latest in a line of schemes dealing with money for descendants of slaves, federal officials said Friday, October 6, 2000. The Internal Revenue Service said its tax centers nationwide all have received thousands of slave reparation-related claims in the last few months. But because there is no law allowing reparations, the IRS rejects the claims. The claims are prompted by scam artists, who charge money for the false information on how to file the claims.

Because there is no such law providing for such reparations, the IRS rejects such claims. Taxpayers who repeatedly file claims after receiving a denial notice are subject to a $500 penalty for filing a frivolous tax return.