WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered
more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed
fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said
Thursday. They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID
thieves' pockets over the next five years.
The IRS is detecting far fewer fraudulent tax refund claims than
actually occur, according to a government audit that warned the
widespread problem could undermine public trust in the U.S. tax system.
Although the IRS detected about 940,000 fraudulent returns for last year
claiming $6.5 billion in refunds, there were potentially another 1.5
million undetected cases of thieves seeking refunds after assuming the
identity of a dead person, child or someone else who normally wouldn't
file a tax return.
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So just how many doctors do you think will get fraudulent checks when these idiots take over health care?
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