Choose easy! The woman who used TurboTax to falsely claim a $2.1MILLION tax refund and went on a...

Daily Mail UK ^ | 06/10/12 | Paul Thompson

[DFG]

A woman who was given a $2.1million tax refund after filing a false claim went on a massive spending spree until she was caught.

Krystle Marie Reyes was only caught after she reported the Visa card containing the seven figure sum had been lost.

By that time she had already spent more than $150,000, including buying a car and other household items.

The 25-year-old from Salem, Oregon, had used Turbo Tax to file her income tax return for 2011.

She claimed earnings of $3million but used the tax calculator programme to claim a refund of $2.1million, Oregon Live reported.

Due to the size of the refund, her electronic claims was examined by several people within the Oregon Revenue Department.

[DFG]

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She's very guilty!

[dfwgator]

She’s obviously qualified to be Secretary of the Treasury.

[yobid]

Should qualify her as Treasury Secretary.

[mo]

hmmmm....wonder if she was “supposed” to turn that card over to a certain Presidential campaign....

funny how this appears in an overseas paper.....

[mikrofon]

She can always call Tim Geithner as a witness in her trial…

[thackney]

$2.1 million and she buys:

Reyes, according to an arrest affidavit, paid $2,000 in cash for a 1999 Dodge Caravan and used the card to buy $800 worth of tires and wheels.

[kempster]

I never really understood the IRS practice of issuing a refund first and examining the return after.

[cripplecreek]

[Ole Okie]

Oh, she’s guilty! Guilty!

[Axenolith]

Because the economy can be stimulated then, and the money gotten back after the fact... It’s how the world works, don’tcha know?

[trisham]

She has dead eyes.

[who knows what evil?]

The Daily Mail...covering the US news the US media ‘overlooks’...

[KC Burke]

Sounds like a state refund. I am sure the left coast papers will be all over this.

[rarestia]

Wait wait wait...

$2000 cash for a MINIVAN? Then $800 for tires and “feet.”

She’s got $2.1 million, and buys a used minivan.

Wow... I’m... I mean, was she trying to be “discreet” with her money?

[dfwgator]

[nhoward14]

She uses TurboTax to file. Oregon uses an abacus to check the return and issues the refund.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You could do the same thing with the form you get from the IRS.

It's amazing that the IRS didn't have a flag for refunds over a million dollars. I doubt that very many legitimate million dollar refunds go out. Anybody with that much money would be very unlikely to overpay.

[oh8eleven]

paid $2,000 in cash for a 1999 Dodge Caravan and used the card to buy $800 worth of tires and wheels.
We have a theme park nearby that rents trailers by the weekend or the week. It attracts TPWT.
My BIL defines these people as the kind that would win Lotto and BUY a trailer at the park.
LOL ... once a loser, always a loser.

[dfwgator]

Besides why would you give the government in essence an interest-free loan of a million dollars?