Following up on recent posts (here, here, here): USA Today, Prisoners Stole Millions From the IRS in 2009:
Prisoners in Florida, Georgia and California lead the nation’s inmate population in scamming payments from an unlikely benefactor: the IRS.
Seemingly proving the adage that crime pays, even behind bars, prisoners in the three states received nearly $19 million in IRS refunds during 2009 after filing false or fraudulent tax returns, according to an IRS report to Congress that was included in a federal audit released in January.
The haul was part of $39.1 million in undeserved federal tax refunds the IRS issued to jail and prison inmates nationwide for phantom jobs on phony returns, the data shows. That’s nearly triple the $13.4 million annual in tax refunds the IRS reported it issued to prison scammers just five years earlier.
Fraudulent federal tax refunds issued to prisoners in 2009:
- Florida — $12.6 million
- Georgia — $3.6 million
- California — $2.8 million
- Texas — $2.6 million
- South Carolina — $1.8 million
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This is a very good reason why the WSJ editorial linked the other day in opposition to increasing enforcement resources for the IRS just did not make any sense, but then the real news will be when a WSJ editorial does make sense.
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…
Iowa’s jailbirds top nation in tax compliance!
While prisoners nationwide “earned” over $39 million in fraudulent refunds in 2009, not a single illegal tax refund stimulated the…