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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

Posted on 06/11/2012 8:09:04 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: crime; ord; oregon; reyes; turbotax
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To: DFG
"...her electronic claims was examined by several people within the Oregon Revenue Department"

It wasn't even the IRS that made this mistake, it was Oregon. Oregon gives out that sort of refund without the Governor's approval?

41 posted on 06/11/2012 9:12:35 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: DFG
If I was stupid enough to do this, I would have had my passport handy and when I got the card I would have purchased a ticket to the Bahamas, opened a numbered account and cashed out the card. That would have been the last the US government ever heard of me.

However, I would not steal from my fellow tax payers and normally a person that stupid would not have the brains to get out of dodge.

The trouble with people like this is they think they are stealing from the government, but there is no such thing as government money, only tax payers money and so if you get a large government check(or credit card)you don't deserve you have stolen it from me and all my fellow tax payers.

42 posted on 06/11/2012 9:17:01 AM PDT by calex59
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To: rarestia

too stupid to even know how to spend money... And people like this votes count the same as yours and mine...

sigh


43 posted on 06/11/2012 9:17:47 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. and the economy died.)
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To: Graybeard58

You needed a Black American-Express credit card!
I thought all Freepers had one. LOL/Sarc

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/07/11/american-express-black-the-worlds-most-exclusive-charge-card/

” Interestingly, the myth predated the card. Doug Smith, director of American Express Europe, told snopes.com, “There had been rumors going around that we had this ultra-exclusive black card for elite customers. It wasn’t true, but we decided to capitalize on the idea anyway. So far we’ve had a customer buy a Bentley and another charter a jet.” (Yes, someone bought a Bentley — a car that costs between $200,000 and $400,000 — with a charge card!)”


44 posted on 06/11/2012 9:26:12 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Recall/ Impeachment Day, November 6, 2012. FUBO, same for RINOs)
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To: I-ambush; Ruy Dias de Bivar
“I’m going to get a double-wide!”
I retired a few years ago and started looking for a winter place in FLA. After a couple of months of searching, my wife wondered why I hadn't found a place.
I really didn't have an answer until it dawned on me that I was rejecting every place I looked at because they were all trailers - single and double wide.
By the time I started looking at the more expensive condos, the market was tanking and I decided to just sit it out.
45 posted on 06/11/2012 9:28:48 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“too stupid to even know how to spend money”

Yeah but she and her Turbo Tax were smarter than the Oregon revenuers - which is probably not saying much.

I do commend her frugality -1999 Dodge Caravan - lol

Asking as a non-Oregonian, could she have cashed in her credit card and set up a bank account - preferably in Switzerland?


47 posted on 06/11/2012 10:00:55 AM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: trisham

......and more chins than chinatown.


48 posted on 06/11/2012 10:43:45 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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I don’t understand how this could work. Wouldn’t $2.1 million dollars in taxes had to have been taken from a paycheck/ I didn’t know I could e-file my taxes and make up any amount I want.

But, if I did what this woman did, I’d be long gone. With that kind of money you could move to Mexico and pay the federales not to turn you in.


49 posted on 06/11/2012 10:54:19 AM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: taxcontrol

Dittos! and off to Panama, Brazil or Philippines they won’t find me


50 posted on 06/11/2012 10:56:29 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: cripplecreek

Man, she looks like her face caught on fire, and all they could find was a wet chain!


51 posted on 06/11/2012 11:06:07 AM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: DFG

I’m going to start using TurboTax to optimize my refunds.


52 posted on 06/11/2012 11:11:32 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker
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To: DFG

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

So Oregon has a maximum tax rate of something like 10%. So maybe she claimed the she owed $300,000 in taxes, so her bogus return must have said that she had prepaid $2.4 million in taxes to get a refund of $2.1 million. And nobody even scratched their head and said WTF??

Hello, are there any brains out there?


53 posted on 06/11/2012 11:12:03 AM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Axenolith

Then they should limit the amount. Wouldn’t it be fun for a tax preparer like myself to have people actually trying to get less of a refund so they could get it faster. That would be a change.


54 posted on 06/11/2012 11:28:26 AM PDT by kempster
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To: Tenacious 1

-—it’s so easy and nobody ever seems to get caught,-—

This could explain how our economy continues to function.


55 posted on 06/11/2012 11:32:13 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: DFG

She’s so ugly, even Rosanne Hard wouldn’t do her.


56 posted on 06/11/2012 11:36:25 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: kempster; Lazamataz
No way dude. You have to increase the velocity of money in addition to printing it like a firehose issues water in order to get us out of this mess. If the truck delivering her refund check goes 10 miles over the speedlimit, it may mean 5 more green jobs damnit!

More debt is the only thing that will save us, LOTS more, like "You need cosmologists in on the brainstorming to grasp the size of the numbers" amounts of debt. We're gonna have to lower the age of contractual consent down to about 4 or 5 in order to get some more credit out in the hands of consumers-in-training even.

BRING IT! Bring on the debt!!! MUAHAHAhahahahahah!
57 posted on 06/11/2012 3:30:06 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: kempster

BTW, in actuality, I keep my withholding high, I usually end up owing some, but I’d sooner pay a small penalty than give them an interest free loan for the year.


58 posted on 06/11/2012 3:31:57 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: thackney

Mensa invitee, I’m sure.


59 posted on 06/11/2012 3:49:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: cripplecreek

Alberta Einstein?


60 posted on 06/11/2012 3:50:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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