IRS Sent $46 Million in Tax Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens — All at the SAME Address...

The Blaze ^ | 6/21/13 | Jason Howerton

[blueyon]

"IRS Sent $46 Million in Tax Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens — All at the SAME Address in Atlanta" The IRS sent more than $46 million in tax refunds to 23,994 “unauthorized” alien workers who all listed the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to an audit report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

However, the Atlanta address that received millions of dollars in refunds was not the only address apparently housing thousands of “unauthorized” aliens. In fact, it wasn’t even the only address in Atlanta that was claiming such a situation.

[Mygirlsmom]

I heard about this yesterday, and am still stunned that a computer/agent somewhere didn’t catch this when more than 100 checks went to the same address. Isn’t there some kind of “red flag threshold” for something like that?

No te partido in the names, so red flag

[Mygirlsmom]

ugh...NO red flag

[Carriage Hill]

“No te partido...”

What does that mean?

[zeugma]

Isn't it strange, that when they really want to do something, like keep track of every single phone call made in the country, the government can put together massive state of the art computing centers. However, when it comes to something like keeping track of people defrauding the taxpayer, they never seem to be able to do anything about it.

IIRC, there have been several major initiatives to upgrade the IRS computer systems, and all have failed miserably.

[ncfool]

But no media outlet other then CNS news and Blaze are carrying it. We need to send to every radio and conservative outlet.

[jayrunner]

Why aren’t the IRS computers programmed to limit the number of checks going to an address?

How many more instances of this are there?

[ncfool]

Yep you would think that but it was probably delivered to the Organizing for America office in Atlanta or the local DNC and they considered this donations to the cause.

[Carriage Hill]

Dozens, hundreds, thousands? I couldn’t even begin to guess, but the scope of fraud is beyond huge.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Well, that surveillance thing sure worked well. Thanks blueyon.

[Mygirlsmom]

It means there was no “tea Party” in any of the names, so of course sending millions in refunds to thousands of people at the same address raised no red flags whatsoever.

[Carriage Hill]

Good point. Or “Patriot” and “Constitution”; don’t forget that red flag.