IRS Sent $46 Million in Tax Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens — All at the SAME Address in Atlanta

from The Blaze:

The IRS sent more than $46 million in tax refunds to 23,994 “unauthorized” alien workers who all listed the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to an audit report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

However, the Atlanta address that received millions of dollars in refunds was not the only address apparently housing thousands of “unauthorized” aliens. In fact, it wasn’t even the only address in Atlanta that was claiming such a situation.

The TIGTA audit report, published last year at the request of members of Congress, revealed 10 addresses in the U.S. that were issued anywhere from 1,846 to 23,994 tax refunds each. Four of those 10 addresses were located in Atlanta.

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Tax Code Needs Reformed: Prison Inmates getting MILLIONS from IRS each year in Fraudulent Tax Returns

from the Virginian-Pilot:

The number of bogus returns filed from prison jumped from 18,000 in 2004 to 91,000

in 2010 to 173,000 in 2012, according to a recent report by the inspector general's

office at the Treasury Department.

The report, which primarily focused on 2010 returns, found that $758 million worth

of fraudulent refunds were claimed that year - double the dollar amount in 2009.

According to the inspectors, $35 million was paid on the 2010 returns before they

were discovered to be fake.

The trend isn't improving. In 2012, the inspectors found that the IRS stopped $2.5

billion worth of fraudulent refunds - with $1.1 billion of that from two especially

ambitious prisoners. No figure was provided on how much was refunded last year

before the IRS learned something was amiss.