IRS refunded $4 billion to identity thieves last year, inspector general's report says

CBS News ^ | November 7, 2013

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Internal Revenue Service issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to an inspector general's report released Thursday.

The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai.

In the U.S., more fraudulent returns went to Miami than any other city. Other top destinations were Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Houston.

[PATRIOT1876]

But they’ll come after you if you don’t pay th protection money for the Democrat’s rackett

[Maceman]

I think the prison time for identity theft ought to be at least as it is for selling heroin.

[VRWC For Truth]

Them Amish sure is busy.

[knarf]

didn’t zero once claim to have relatives in Ireland ?

[Iron Munro]

No time to for the IRS to police fraud.

Too busy abusing their power to persecute Obama’s critics.

[Pontiac]

Despite budget cuts, the agency said, agents have resolved more than 565,000 cases of identity theft this year, three times the number of cases resolved at the same time last year.

Budget cuts?

[TurboZamboni]

In the U.S., more fraudulent returns went to Miami than any other city. Other top destinations were Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Houston.

Hmmm. what do these cities have in common?

[LibLieSlayer]

America is a pressure cooker... and it is seeing pressure beyond its specifications.

[Pontiac]

Despite budget cuts, the agency said, agents have resolved more than 565,000 cases of identity theft this year, three times the number of cases resolved at the same time last year.

Agents have resolved cases of identity fraud.

I bet that means that they have determined that a taxpayer was not the person who received an unjustified return. I am quite sure that they have not prosecuted 565,000 fraud cases.

You will note that no where in the article does it say how many cases of tax refund fraud were prosecuted or how much money was recovered. I wonder Why.

[hoosierham]

Multiple returns to any single address should cause increased scrutiny.Easy enough to discern if family or likely fraud.

[Chode]

4 billion here, 4 billion there, pretty soon yer talkin real money...

[Starstruck]

Wait until we see the results of people hacking the ObamaCare website to steal identities. 4 billion is nothing.

[1rudeboy]

Lithuania makes the news!

[Toddsterpatriot]

LOL!

We need to give this efficient government a lot more power, for jobs!

[aimhigh]

I suspect this is how the Democrat party is funded.

[1rudeboy]

And after Robert J. Shiller gets the Nobel prize for econ . . . as soon as the Lugans have something to cheer about, they get wrecked.

[1rudeboy]

And you know what ticks me off the most? I could be sitting in a dacha (Lith: troba, trobelė) spending my days fishing and feeding the ponies, and collecting 600+ checks from the IRS.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Now they’re on to this scam. You’ll have to get the checks forwarded to your dacha. Spread out the initial addresses.

[1rudeboy]

Frankly, my biggest problem would be:

We hear that you have a nice little operation, tovarishch.
Let me explain how it will work going forward.