IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address

[OriginalShroom]

If the IRS can spend years and dozens of people investigating Tea Party groups, why didn't they investigate this?

IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ?Unauthorized? Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address | CNS News

The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically used by thousands of “unauthorized” alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds in 2011.

In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year, four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax refunds to “unauthorized” aliens were in Atlanta. The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.

Other locations on the IG’s Top Ten list for singular addresses that were theoretically used simultaneously by thousands of unauthorized alien workers, included an address in Oxnard, Calif, where the IRS sent 2,507 refunds worth $10,395,874; an address in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the IRS sent 2,408 refunds worth $7,284,212; an address in Phoenix, Ariz., where the IRS sent 2,047 refunds worth $5,558,608; an address in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the IRS sent 1,972 refunds worth $2,256,302; an address in San Jose, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,942 refunds worth $5,091,027; and an address in Arvin, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,846 refunds worth $3,298,877.

Since 1996, the IRS has issued what it calls Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to two classes of persons: 1) non-resident aliens who have a tax liability in the United States, and 2) aliens living in the United States who are “not authorized to work in the United States.” The IRS has long known it was giving these numbers to illegal aliens, and thus facilitating their ability to work illegally in the United States. For example, the Treasury Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress published on Oct. 29, 1999—nearly fourteen years ago—specifically drew attention to this problem. -

 

[Rozman]

I filed my 2012 Federal return using E file on March 16th....

I am still waiting for my Federal and NY State Refund.
The only information I have gotten so far after filing 3 times is from an IRS agent
who said it sounds like someone used my SS# and I should file a hard copy paper return.
That was weeks ago and I have not heard anything since.

What a joke The IRS is.

 

[tinydancer]

You can't make up shit like this. YOWZAH!

 

[tap4154]

IRS is a Dem/union-run org. All of it's employees are Dem/union sloths who, by union contract, get bonuses if they just show up fairly regularly and half-sober, and don't drool too much on their desks.

We should expect utter incompetence and partisanship.

 

[Luissa]

I filed my 2012 Federal return using E file on March 16th....

I am still waiting for my Federal and NY State Refund.
The only information I have gotten so far after filing 3 times is from an IRS agent
who said it sounds like someone used my SS# and I should file a hard copy paper return.
That was weeks ago and I have not heard anything since.

What a joke The IRS is.

Some used my SSN, I didn't find about it until a few years later but I had to call around to the IRS etc.. It was a mess.
You should find out where you can run your employment history. I found it when they ran mine when I had to file a parenting plan with family court.
It was pretty easy to find, my last name isn't Alvarez and I didn't work construction in central Washington.
Good luck.

 

[MACAULAY]

This fraud and theft--of massive amounts of taxpayer money entrusted to the government--was obviously a ripe target to the criminal class because it appears to have netted multi-millions of dollars for numerous independent conspiracies in various parts of the country.

Perhaps it started small; worked for a year or two--and word got around until it became like a wildfire.

How long has it been going on?

This type of fraud and theft ought to have been ANTICIPATED by the IRS. A simple adjustment to its computers could have made them spit out checks going to the same addresses.

This is gross negligence, to go along with all the other disgusting revelations of late, and that the IRS employees are getting 70 million dollars in bonuses is a stench and an abomination.
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It takes guts to make post like these now days. I guess we'll be getting audited, and we better hope we don't need a hip replacement in the future. We'll be way down on the Obamacare waiting list.