Posted on 08/06/2012 10:18:36 AM PDT by george76
The IRS pays out billions in fraudulent tax refunds, and Lansing is at the top of the list.
The IRS paid out more than $3 million in refunds to one address in Lansing. The IRS has not disclosed that address, but according to a new report issued by the IRS Inspector General, someone filed more than 2100 separate tax returns using that address, and received $3.3 million in fraudulent refunds.
The inspector general says identity thieves filing bogus tax returns got more than $5 billion in refunds last year. The inspector general also says the problem is so rampant., the IRS could pay out as much as $21 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the next five years.
But even when the government realizes it has been scammed, the inspector general says there's not much that can be done to get the money back.
"The tax thieves or the identity thieves have learned that if they file tax returns early in the tax filing season, before a legitimate taxpayer has the opportunity to do so, they can preempt the legitimate taxpayer's refund
(Excerpt) Read more at wilx.com ...
Ann Arbor and UofM is the heart of darkness in Michigan. Kalamazoo and Western are the spleen of darkness.
I still say that if given a choice between vaporizing Detroit or Ann Arbor and K-Zoo, Detroit gets a pass. Detroit may be a parasite but its an indifferent parasite. Ann Abor and K-Zoo on the other hand are angry, self righteous, and demanding parasites.
There has to be a reason there is no multiple filing software generated flag. I simply cannot think of an honest one. Even lack of competence is not convincing.
Does Charlie Rangel have a 3rd house there?
Yet, I am short the amount paid and they send me nasty grams about garnishing wages and tax liens.
Time for a flat tax and just close down the IRS...save a gazillion dollars.
It is just too difficult to cross reference addresses, cities, states, etc. for duplications.....
Thanks george76 & cripplecreek.
And these same fools will dog the butt of someone who busts his tail making a living, sweats bullets over his tax returns trying to get them right in spite of the labrintine tax code and paying through the nose year after year after year.
They look for a persecute for the smallest nit. None will be too small to pick against citizens who work hard at honest jobs and businesses and yet billions go out the door to fraud so obvious it is like a beam in their eye.
Politicians do nothing but work for themselves, their own power, preservation and profit. Working for the people is nothing but a fraudulent activity.
This government sucks. It needs a major makeover built on the original foundation... the one true Constitution.
But they said it would save money and lower the overall health care costs and that cost saving agency all ready in place called the GSA could audit them and prove it. /S
I really need to find a larger sarcasm tag...
$1570 is a “low-dollar” return?
$3.3 million / 2100 returns = ~$1570.
Purdue/Lafayette/West Lafayette is an anomaly in college towns...
It is a VERY conservative University, with liberal pockets. The focus on Engineering, Aviation, and Ag, with a very large percentage of overseas students, are largely responsible for that.
Ag and Engineering rely on provable facts, not ideology, and it penetrates everything else they do. The same applies in Aviation. You don’t cut corners, or people end up DEAD.
Because of that, Demographics that you would normally apply to a metro of that size, such as per-capita spending, don’t really apply.
It did generate an alarm. The threshold was 2100 returns. See, the software DID it's job.
It's much easier to harass law abiding citizens than to go after the criminals.
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