[Jeff Chandler]

That would be form 1040BS

[PianoMan]

I was picked on in eighth grade. So I gave myself an additional deduction of $5000.

[mdittmar]

Ha!,hee,ha,ho,ha,oh man.

Wait why am I laughing?

Oh yea,because this is so f#^&+ing outrageous I can't belive it!

[Rodney King]

To be fair to the IRS here, its not that they looked at the credits and approved them, it is just that the IRS takes 98% of the people at their word. Still, they are a bunch of freedom-hating jackasses and the whole thing should be done away with in favor of a National Sales tax, collected by the States (so that there is less redundancy in tax collection).

[RodgerD]

This is some serious tax fraud. Of course, we'd probably be asking too much to expect prosecutions - that would be insensitive.

[ancient_geezer]

The Internal Revenue Service mistakenly paid out more than $30 million to tax filers seeking nonexistent slavery tax credits in 2000 and 2001, according to a Treasury Department investigation.

Mistakenly?

I thought that's what refunds are all about. You know, reparations to Tax Slaves? Granted the reparations ain't much but hey, the more slave you are the bigger that refund should be. Tax cuts for the rich,(the real slaves in the system):

Walter Williams, World Net Daily, 10-25-2000

According to the most recent U.S. Treasury Department figures, in 1997 the top 1 percent of income-earners (those with income of $250,000 and higher) paid 33 percent of all federal income taxes. The top 5 percent of income-earners ($108,000 and over) paid 52 percent, and the top 50 percent ($36,000 and over) paid 96 percent of income taxes. Guess what the bottom 50 percent of income earners paid?

But then I think it's time to change tax systems myself:

Keyes on Taxes & Government Spending:

• "The income tax in effect makes us vassals to the government – the politicians decide how much income we can keep. No mere “reform” of this slave tax, such as flattening the rate, can correct its fundamental denial of control over our own money. Only the abolition of the income tax itself will restore the basic American principle that our income is both our own money and our own private business - not the government's."

• "Replacing the income tax with a national sales tax would rejuvenate independence and responsibility in our citizens. True economic liberty and moral revival go hand in hand."

• "A national sales tax would also put the American citizen back in control of national fiscal policy. The best way to curtail government spending is to cut taxes, because they can’t spend what they don’t get. But with a sales tax, we could deny funds to a spendthrift government – and give ourselves a tax cut – whenever we make the private choice to alter our spending and saving habits."

[Amerigomag]

First, Friday night late is when the real, real embarrassing news is relased by the feds so this has got to have a grain of truth in it.

Second, you mean all I had to do this year was pencil in $80k on line 33 and the check was in the mail.

Unf---king believable!!!!

[Michael Barnes]

A $500 fine? Shit, Bet yer bottom dollar if this ol' sys admin whitey tried tax credits anywhere near this crap, I would be in jail..

[Lion's Cub]

Starting Monday, the IRS will be begin levying a $500 fine on taxpayers who do not withdraw the claim if they have been caught.

I don't believe I'm off the mark to say that whites would never be offered such a pass--they'd be prosecuted for tax fraud.

[Nick Danger]

This is really ugly. I hope it is not a portent of things to come.

At a minimum, we'll have to rein in the diversity coordinators at certain IRS processing centers. Things may have gotten a little too diverse in some of them.

[A CA Guy]

I'm a slave to love. Where's my credits?

[Rudder]

Now we know why Jessie Jackson has IRS immunity...his people have taken it over.

[FairWitness]

The Washington Post, citing an unidentified official, reported that one IRS employee is under investigation for allegedly helping process returns that claimed the credit. At least 12 current and former IRS employees, all low-level workers in processing centers, applied to receive such a credit, the newspaper report said.

Sounds like maybe the people asking for reparations are getting some inside help from IRS agents to pull off a scam.

[Jasper]

Our govenment at work. /sarcasm

April 15th is right around the corner.....arghhhhhhh!!!!

[NautiNurse]

This story was buried 7 pages into my local news rag this morning. It was usurped by page 2 "Celebrity Click" stories about Britney Spears, Ozzie Osborne, and Robin Williams, as well as page 4 Town Cool To 'Cheney High' and Space Station Residents Get Welcome Visitors.

I wonder if the IRS gets a pass for this "meager" 1% error rate. I'm seeing red at the moment...

[ridensm]

Wow, think maybe I can file an amended return? $43,000 vs. a $500 fine if I get caught and I refuse to remove the claim. Sounds like if someone refuses to remove the claim they still get the money but have to pay a $500 fine to me. Maybe the government has already declared reparation payments should be paid and this is the way they're doing it. Wouldn't be the first time they told all the rest of us it's not the way it should work.

[NormsRevenge]

IRS=I'm Really Stupid

The IRS will not comment on how much monies have been recovered...Dohhhh!!!!

What I want to know is did x42 already cash his check ;-?

[tututango]

Ok, who else read this headline and thought wtf?

Let's all claim a freeper tax credit next year and see if the IRS catches it.

[sandydipper]

about 12 low level IRS employees applied for the tax credit

Sorta reminds me of the time the local septic got stopped up for the Fl. Sunshine Parkway. A Roto Rooter guy recovered thousands of reciepts that had been flushed by some "low level" toll booth attendants. Estimated loss was in the millions.

Outa be allowed to shoot them "low level" employees on the spot.