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IRS Employee Pleads Guilty in a Stolen-Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
CFEG reports that on August 9, 2018, in a federal district court in the Northern District of Georgia, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee pled guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft for her role in a stolen-identity refund fraud scheme. She was indicted in April 2017 for…
TESTIMONY OF TIMOTHY P. CAMUS DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR INVESTIGATIONS TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERA
TESTIMONY OF TIMOTHY P. CAMUS DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR INVESTIGATIONS TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION before the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CFEG reports on the testimony of Timothy P. Camus, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration,…
IRS Employee Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements on May 31, 2018
CFEG reports that on May 31, 2018, in a federal district court in the District of New Jersey, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee pled guilty to one count of making false representations and documents in violation of Title 18, United States Code § 1001. She was previously charged with…
Former IRS-CI Special Agent Found Guilty in a Scheme Designed to Defraud and Obstruct the IRS
CFEG reports that on June 15, 2018, in a federal district court in the Eastern District of California, a jury found a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Special Agent guilty of filing false tax returns, theft of Government funds, and obstruction of justice. She was charged with the offenses in…
“The 2016 Tax Filing Season” April 19, 2016
TESTIMONY OF TIMOTHY P. CAMUS DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR INVESTIGATIONS TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION before the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES “The 2016 Tax Filing Season” April 19, 2016 CFEG reports on the testimony of Timothy P. Camus, Deputy Inspector General…
IRS Negligence Destroys Your Privacy
When under the gun from IRS auditors and investigators your records are scrutinized as intensely and meticulously as possible. Yet, when it comes to the IRS’s requirements for following the rules about proper care and diligence of sensitive taxpayer information, they’re more careless than you can imagine. The IRS has…
IRS Wastes Taxpayer Dollars and Claims it’s Efficient
The IRS loves to claim it is an efficient organization, often using the most inefficient bureaucracies on the planet as a basis of comparison. After drawing a single comparison between the IRS’s unproductive exploits and the easy tax revenue it lets slip through the cracks and the essential services it…
They Lobby to Make Government Inefficient, Frustrating and Costly for YOU!
Simplifying the tax-preparation burden has historically always been a bi-partisan issue, but legislation to that effect rarely ever meaningfully gets passed through Congress. There are bad actors that fester in the halls of Congress who have continually obstructed the passage of “return-free filing” legislation which would pre-populate tax…
IRS Above the Law!
It’s tax season again, a perfect time to remind America’s taxpayers that “poor management is not a crime,” well if you’re an IRS employee anyway. It’s been a little over 3 years since Lois Lerner, the former director of the exempt organizations unit of the IRS has been in the…
Missouri Man Indicted for $12 Million Tax Refund Fraud, Voter Fraud, Illegal Reentry and Felon in Possession of Firearm
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs CFEG reports that the Department of Justice reported on March 29, 2017 that a federal grand jury sitting in St. Louis, Missouri, returned a superseding indictment charging a St. Louis resident for his role in a sophisticated stolen identity refund fraud scheme and…
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION
CFEG reports that the Treasury Inspector for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report on April 7, 2017 detailing its interim results of the 2017 tax filing season. CFEG highlights TIGTA’s findings with respect to identity theft tax refund fraud. The full report may be viewed by clicking on the link…
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida introduces a Bill in the United States Senate
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida introduces a Bill in the United States Senate requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft. CFEG is pleased to announce that a…
