Identity thieves could rake in $26 billion in tax refunds
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 9:24PM
Criminals who file fraudulent tax returns by stealing people’s identities could rake in an estimated $26 billion over the next five years because the IRS cannot keep up with the amount of the fraud, Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George said Tuesday.
“Our analysis found that, although the IRS detects and prevents a large number of fraudulent refunds based on false income documents, there is much fraud that it does not detect,” said George’s prepared testimony before a joint hearing of the House Ways and Means Subcommittees on Oversight and Social Security.
Posted by Robert Strait
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