Report finds widespread fraud in taxpayer ID program?
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.
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- keeper 2012/08/09 18:00:21
+1It seems to me that the new IRS hirees should clean their own house before they start to audit people's health care status. That is a lot of fraud that could have been stopped by a simple software command that says check any returns from the same address or bank account.reply
