Posted on 11/07/2013 7:08:15 PM PST by Daffynition
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 a Treasury 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A few Billion more and we'd be talkin' real $$$.
Enough to fix that website about ten times. How many nation-states don’t have a budget of $4 billion?
My favorite one detected by the postman delivering all the refund checks - http://www.wral.com/investigators-child-tax-credit-allows-fraudsters-a-chance-to-cheat/11697176/
I learned recently while applying for a mortgage that some hyena up in Alaska got ahold of my SS number and filed a return using my name. This impostor claimed an income of $12,000 and got a return of $1,100. My income for the last 15 years has been north of $50,000 plus my wife’s. One would think that the IRS computers would’ve spotted that anomaly. Thanks to that hyena, I STILL haven’t got my 2012 return. We finally got all the paperwork faxed to the mortgage company. In July my son convinced me to open a LifeLock account.
Perhaps they should fix the IRS before taking on 18% of the economy.
Allowing this is a high crime + misdemeanor
It seems the IRS was too busy attacking Tea Party/conservative groups
to be bothered with the actual theft of American taxpayers money.
Geez, I’m sorry to hear about your trouble.
If/when I file my return, if I’m off by $.50....you can bet I’ll hear from then...and expect a lien of some sort.
Just WOW! I’m angry enough at our government....to read this ....I’m livid!
> In the U.S., more fraudulent returns went to Miami than any other city.
Other top destinations were Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Houston.
Aren’t those predomonantly white cities?.../s
Ping for later.
“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.”
If it makes no sense that a computerized system would not catch that. We know that it would catch it if we tried it.
The real truth of the matter is probably something more like this. Much of that money is being funneled right back to politicians and world power players. This is how one could cover it up.
how come everytime I try to screw the government, they catch me????
Yep. A five year old with basic programming skills could have flagged most of these.
South Florida dominates another category.
Aide for illegals.
Same thing happened to me, only I never found out who it was. And yes, I got Lifelock, but that is really just insurance. Makes sure to contact the Soc. Security Administration, the SEC, the IRS’s fraud division, and that you file a police report . . .just call and ask for a policeman to stop by and take your info. Sounds like you have already done some of this.
My God, where does it end?
My daughter just got pegged by the IRS for some error on her tax return, for a whopping $80.00.
So the computers didn’t catch these checks going out, and yet these same computers under the watchful eye of the IRS are going to handle obamacare? Damn
There was a story not too long ago about the Miami address that had hundreds of returns.
Even the most incompetent postman wouldn't stuff that many letters into one box.
It would take a mailbag. Or more likely they'd hold the letters at the local P.O. for pick up.
And BTW, if these are wire transfers, generally doesn't the IRS get a tad interested in "someone" moving hundreds of thousands of dollars into overseas accounts?
Wouldn't some kind of alarm go off?
I sure as poop couldn't just pop by my bank and deposit 300K into my account without the proper documentation.
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