Archive for IRS Employees Pretend To Buy Houses To Steal New Buyer Tax Credit

Friday, March 1st, 2019 @ 11:19PM

IRS Employee Sentenced in a Scheme to Defraud the IRS

CFEG reports that on May 12, 2017, in a federal district court in the Eastern District of New York, a former IRS employee was sentenced for filing false tax returns, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, wire fraud, mail fraud, and perjury. The IRS employee pled…

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Thursday, February 21st, 2019 @ 3:46PM

Internal Revenue Service Employees Made Questionable Claims for the Homebuyer Credit

To qualify as a first-time homebuyer, a taxpayer (or a taxpayer’s spouse) may not have previously owned a principal residence for three years prior to the purchase date of the home for which the Homebuyer Credit is claimed. https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2010reports/201041069fr.pdf TIGTA reported that it developed computer programs to identify IRS employees…

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