[cryptical]

I can't believe that they can't do a quick pass of all people claiming the EITC, especially since they require a SSN for each child.

I'm not a big tax fan, but if you have a tax that has 27-32% cheating, that's something that needs to be looked into.

At 32 Billion, that's around 8-10 BILLION wasted.

[BushCountry]

They are not lying about the number or the percentage of people cheating. I personally met several people who cheat and it used to burn me to no end, I am busting my butt trying to makes end meet and get a piddling or have to pay. They get checks for 4 or 5 thousand back and worked maybe a month out of the year.

[evolved_rage]

I wonder if its a bigger version of the reparation scams. I seem to recall several hundred returns were processed wherein the filer claimed a one time slavery reparation credit, and the IRS issued hundreds of checks for around $40,000 a piece. There had to be institutional facilitators to write so many large checks. Probably some rat/rino holdover forbids auditing EITC, and word of mouth of the practice has spread in certain lower income communities.