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Leonard
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posted August 09, 2012 01:30 AM
Report finds widespread fraud in taxpayer ID program
By Mike EmanuelPublished August 08, 2012FoxNews.com
A recently released report shows widespread tax fraud in connection with the federal government’s Individual Taxpayer Identification Number program.
The U.S. Treasury inspector general report accuses the IRS of discouraging employees from reviewing applications for the ID numbers, which are generally from non-resident workers.
The inspector general specifically said there were 154 mailing addresses that were used 1,000 or more times on applications, including 15,795 numbers assigned to a Phoenix address.
The report, which evaluated the processing year 2011, also found inadequate controls can result in the numbers being assigned to people who have not proved their identity or foreign status, which can result in fraudulent tax returns.
The inspector general also found 10 individual addresses were used for filing 53,994 tax returns and receiving $86.4 million in fraudulent tax refunds. For example, 23,994 tax refunds totaling $46.3 million were issued to an address in Atlanta; and 2,507 tax refunds totaling $10.4 million were issued to an address in Oxnard, Calif.
In addition, the Treasury’s Inspector General for Tax Administration reports found 10 bank accounts received 23,560 tax refunds totaling more than $16 million -- including: 2,706 tax refunds issued to a single account totaling $7.3 million.
The report was sent to the IRS on July 16, and released more than three weeks later.
Congressional lawmakers are demanding answers by the end of the month.
Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., told IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman in a letter that IRS employees “are discouraged from flagging potentially fraudulent ITIN applications.”
Boustany, chairman of a House Ways and Means Committee’s oversight subcommittee, also suggested the IRS has a training problem – failing to prioritize fraud prevention.
The IRS issued a statement in response to the report that said in part the agency has recognized issues with the ITIN process and that top officials are have “moved quickly and aggressively to address issues that were identified.”
“ We have already taken major steps to strengthen our documentation standards required in order to obtain an ITIN, and we have significantly increased our scrutiny of applications,” the letter also stated. In addition, the IRS has obtained new tools and equipment to help employees improve their ability to detect fraudulent documents."
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
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posted August 09, 2012 04:41 AM
I wonder how long this has been going on? Somehow, I'm not surprised, one more government screw up. Let's just give money away to whomever and whenever. And our national debt is how many trillion?
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posted August 09, 2012 07:39 AM
Sadly, this type of thing has been going on throughout our country as long as there are crooked people. If there is a scam to be created, the scammers will eventually figure it out. That is how crooks think, and it is hard for good people to think like that. That is their doorway to opportunity, so to speak. The people whose responsibity it is to enforce regulations are behind in the race to begin with.
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posted August 09, 2012 07:54 AM
It's clearly Bush's fault. He was in office during the ten years that somebody said that Romney didn't pay any taxes and now these minor book-keeping errors that possibly occurred at possible Acorn locations are the result. Nothing to see here, move along, Kool-Aid's available at the end of the line. Remember to vote early & vote often. If you'll just give HIM another four years, HE can finish the work that HE'S begun.
And another thing; How long before we hear; "That Mars rover. Ya know...you guys in NASA, you didn't build that..............."
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Leonard
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posted August 09, 2012 10:26 AM
What gripes me is that the Democrats are always so loose with taxpayer's money. THEY decide where it goes and who gets it, like Soleyndra because it's "green" so it's okay that the investment is shaky.
But with all the free spending, the next thing out of their mouth's is raising taxes so they can redistribute more money to pet projects.
Whatever happened to frugality? What is wrong with passing a budget, which Obama has not had the annoyance of working within the framework of a budget for any of his four years in office. Of course not, too restricting, too transparent, not progressive enough. I have never seen an administration more worthy of the label; "TAX AND SPEND" than this sorry bunch!
And, nobody pays for mistakes? We can't find anybody responsible for Fast and Furious...... besides George Bush, that is. These are despicable people, if they get another four years it will literally be A CRYING SHAME.
You can't find a single liberal pundit on TV to say anything negative about anything the Democrats do! They have no conscience, at all. On stuff that you know is wrong and there is no defense, these cheese-balls defend the indefensible, to the death. I can't believe these people, they are truly crazy. God! I hate Democrats!
Good hunting. El Bee
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Leonard
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posted August 09, 2012 10:46 AM
Here is a prime example. It took me about ten minutes to stumble on to this little gem. read on~
Mitt Romney asked Thursday where all the "hope and change" has gone, as President Obama's supporters pressed ahead with plans to air a misleading TV ad and a top campaign aide was accused of "lying" about her knowledge of its contents.
The Republican presidential candidate, in his most forceful comments to date, suggested Obama's supporters should be "embarrassed" over the super PAC ad that ties him to a woman's death from cancer. But he wasn't holding out hope that the group would pull it down, after the Democratic operative behind the ad claimed it'll be airing soon in battleground states despite the furor.
"You know, in the past when somebody pointed out that something was inaccurate campaigns either pulled the ad - they were embarrassed," Romney said on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" radio show. "Today, they just blast ahead."
The Obama campaign has faced mounting criticism over the ad not just from Romney but independent fact-checkers, though the ad was produced by the purportedly independent super PAC Priorities USA.
Further, Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter is now being accused by the Romney campaign of lying over what she knew about the man at the center of that ad.
Cutter appeared on CNN Wednesday morning to say, among other things, that "I don't know the facts" about the case of Joe Soptic, the steelworker who appeared in the video. In the ad, Soptic, recounts how his wife died of cancer after he lost his health insurance when his plant was shuttered after a takeover by Bain Capital and other companies working with the private equity firm.
Cutter said she didn't know when Soptic's wife fell ill, or about his health insurance.
Yet in May, Cutter herself hosted a conference call in which Soptic detailed his case to reporters. During the call, as he did in the ad, Soptic explained how his wife fell ill after he lost his job, and how he lost his health insurance. The call took place as Soptic began appearing in Obama campaign ads, and was featured in a profile on the Obama campaign website.
The Obama campaign has acknowledged that conference call, but has not responded directly to allegations that anyone lied.
Cutter wasn't the only Obama campaign official caught up in the controversy.
"I certainly don't know the specifics of this man's case," campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said on MSNBC.
Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters "we don't have any knowledge of the story of the family."
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney claimed he hadn't seen the ad, though it had already gotten heavy media coverage by that point.
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a top Romney surrogate, told Fox News that while the super PAC is defending the ad's accuracy, "the lie is in the omissions."
The ad did not reveal key details about the timeline of Soptic's case. First, Soptic's wife initially had her own health insurance after her husband lost his job. Second,
Soptic's wife died in 2006, five years after her husband's company, GST, filed for bankruptcy. And long after Romney had left Bain Capital.
Sununu blasted Obama aides for denying knowledge of the case.
"First of all they craft a despicable ad full of lies," Sununu said. "And then Stephanie Cutter and Robert Gibbs and Jay Carney lie to the press that they didn't know anything that was in that ad."
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt stressed Wednesday, in response to the criticism, that "we can't coordinate with super PACs and didn't produce" the ad.
"Joe Soptic suffered when he lost his job in the aftermath of the GST Steel plant closing, and no one is denying that he discussed that when he appeared in a campaign advertisement and on a conference call. The important point here is that Mitt Romney's campaign is based solely on his experience as a corporate buyout specialist, and while he has been quick to claim he created jobs, he refuses to accept responsibility for the jobs that were lost and workers that were impacted," he said.
In an interview with CNN late Wednesday, Priorities USA co-founder Bill Burton defended the ad and said it would be going up in battleground states across the country.
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
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