Posted on 04/26/2016 3:21:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Internal Revenue Service will start notifying victims of employment-related identity theft in a shift of policy that comes after criticism from Congress.
"We’re still working out the details of the policy change to advise people of possible misuse of their Social Security number, and we will have more details to share in the near future," the IRS said in a statement.
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing earlier this month, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), expressed concerns about the fact that the IRS doesn't inform victims when illegal immigrants use their Social Security numbers to obtain employment and then file false information on their W-2 forms.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen replied that the agency does not go after illegal immigrants who use other people's Social Security numbers to get jobs and then file their tax returns using their own IRS-issued individual taxpayer identification numbers.
Koskinen said it's in everyone's best interest for undocumented workers to pay what ever taxes they owe.
The day after the hearing, the IRS informed Coats that the agency would start notifying new victims of employment-related ID theft as of January 2017, a spokesman for the Senator said Tuesday.
The IRS did not say when the decision was made to change the policy, what information would be included in the notification and whether every victim would be informed, the spokesman added.
WTHR in Indianapolis first reported the shift.
To ensure that the IRS addresses employment-related ID theft, Coats offered an amendment that was included in two taxpayer-protection bills passed by the Finance Committee last week.
The amendment would codify that the IRS has to notify vicitims and would offer the victims identity-protection measures. Additionally, the provision would make sure that the IRS and the Social Security Administration are informing each other about cases where names and SSNs do not align.
“That smug little sack o’ weasel sh*t Koskinen needs to be removed from his privileged position, and put in a jail cell with Lois Lerner for the rest of their miserable lives.”
They BOTH committed multiple Federal felonies!
With a criminal in the WH, and a complicit McConnell and Ryan, we are living in a LAWLESS country!
That’d sure work for me.
Amen to that.
Bottom line is, they don’t give a crap about the citizenry, as long as they rake in the money from them.
my 1) Get such a bad credit rating that noone will issue you any credit.
My 65 year old neighbor was a victim of identity theft and somebody filed for her tax return. She called the IRS and she was basically treated like she was the criminal. They would not tell her if it had been paid out to the criminal and they would not tell her how much is a been filed. Also, she was not able to find out if it had not been paid out and they were able to stop it before it was paid out. She was the one who had to file all kinds of paperwork to prove who she said she was and they would let her know all of the information 30 to 90 days afterwards.
Among other things, I have never understood why they start cranking out refund checks early in January. W-2’s and 1099’s are not due until the end of the month. Would seem simple enough to have a computer program check the info on them against any returns already filed and kick the returns out for a look see if there are any inconsistencies before putting a check to the wrong person in the mail.
I had a friend in high school who worked at the hamburger stand ($3.50 an hour). He received a tax bill for $5000 and thought for sure he was going to jail. He got out of it pretty easily, but it would have been a different story had he held a real job.
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