IRS Erroneously Paid Slavery Credits

AP ^ | April 13, 2002, 12:26 AM EDT | CURT ANDERSON

[Focault's Pendulum]

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

I'm giving myself a $1,000 deduction for just having clicked on this thread!

[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.

[300winmag]

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

I'd like to know (and they'll never tell us) what line on the tax form, or what supplemental form, they use to scam off a cool $43K apiece. My guess is there are still plenty of klintonoids in high places in the IRS, and they have their own special department to route these forms through. Expect someone inside the IRS to be getting a kickback, too.

This isn't "ha ha ha", these are serious felonies, and it sounds like they'll still be here this year, too.

[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 ;-?

[Nick Danger]

My guess is ... they have their own special department to route these forms through.

Absolutely. This is not a small deal. This is an entitlement program that was legislated and implemented entirely within an executive branch bureaucracy, by people who know better than the Congress how federal tax dollars shall be spent. It is a form of treason against the Constitution of the United States.

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law

We're talking about the Treasury Department issuing checks here, and not insignificant checks.

Nor was this some disgrunted employee. It would take a lot of people working in concert to pull this off. We have a bureaucracy run amok here folks, passing its own appropriations and sending out the checks.

This is a serious, serious threat to the ability of the people to control the government through their elected representatives. It's not the money. This is a "principle" thing. Executive branch bureaucrats do not decide for themselves how to spend the taxpayers' money. That is treason, and I hope this is dealt with just that way. This is one of those episodes that demands a public hanging, so that the rest of the civil service bureaucracy understands that this kind of thing will be dealt with extremely harshly.

[Jean S]

Bump.

[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.

[WatchOutForSnakes]

Without a doubt it is an inside job. There is no place on a tax return to claim a "slave credit". This is just pure theft and it's being carried on by IRS employees. There is no other way it could happen.

[missmanhattan]

when my grandfather came from italy in 1923 to new york city he was discriminated against by the irish in the neighborhood (guinea bastard)they called him. how much do i get.?