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.
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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?
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.
too stupid to even know how to spend money... And people like this votes count the same as yours and mine...
sigh
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!)”
“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?
......and more chins than chinatown.
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.
Dittos! and off to Panama, Brazil or Philippines they won’t find me
Man, she looks like her face caught on fire, and all they could find was a wet chain!
I’m going to start using TurboTax to optimize my refunds.
...................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?
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.
-—it’s so easy and nobody ever seems to get caught,-—
This could explain how our economy continues to function.
She’s so ugly, even Rosanne Hard wouldn’t do her.
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.
Mensa invitee, I’m sure.
Alberta Einstein?
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