RS policies help fuel tax refund fraud, officials say
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/us/tax-refund-scam/index.html
A sad article indeed. The sums involved are HUGE and all of it a direct withdrawal from our (taxpayer) pockets. This is on par with medicare/medicaid fraud: billions of dollars. The only solution offered? Make it more difficult for the rest of us to get our refunds! It is bad enough we are already giving the government a year-long interest-free loan, now to reduce fraud we will get to extend that even longer so the government can finally do what it should have been doing all along: match up the information it has in its left-hand database with its right-hand database and figure out who the heck is breaking the law. Hopefully then they will see that the criminals wind up in jail for their efforts.
All a pipe dream, of course!
Willie Sutton FTW.