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    IRS Sent $46M In Refunds To 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens At One Atlanta Address

    Report: IRS Sent $46M In Refunds To 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens At One Atlanta Address

    (CNSNews.com) - 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 occupied 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.

    http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/06/21/report-irs-sent-46m-refunds-23994-%E2%80%98unauthorized%E2%80%99-aliens-one-atlanta-address




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    IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address
    June 21, 2013 - 4:18 PM
    By Terence P. Jeffrey

    (CNSNews.com) - 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 occupied 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.

    “The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to undocumented aliens to improve nonresident alien compliance with tax laws. This IRS practice seems counter-productive to the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) mission to identify undocumented aliens and prevent unlawful alien entry,” TIGTA warned in that long-ago report.

    The inspector general’s 2012 audit report on the IRS’s handling of ITINs was spurred by two IRS employees who went to member of Congress "alleging that IRS management was requiring employees to assign Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) even when the applications were fraudulent.”

    In an August 2012 press release accompanying the audit report, TIGTA said the report “validated” the complaints of the IRS employees.

    “TIGTA’s audit found that IRS management has not established adequate internal controls to detect and prevent the assignment of an ITIN to individuals submitting questionable applications,” said Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George. “Even more troubling, TIGTA found an environment which discourages employees from detecting fraudulent applications.”

    In addition to the 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 that the IRS sent to a single address in Atlanta, the IG also discovered that the IRS had assigned 15,796 ITINs to unauthorized aliens who presumably resided at a single Atlanta address.

    The IRS, according to TIGTA, also assigned ITINs to 15,028 unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Dallas, Texas, and 10,356 to unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Atlantic City, N.J.

    Perhaps the most remarkable act of the IRS was this: It assigned 6,411 ITINs to unauthorized aliens presumably using a single address in Morganton, North Carolina. According to the 2010 Census, there were only 16,681 people in Morganton. So, for the IRS to have been correct in issuing 6,411 ITINS to unauthorized aliens at a single address Morganton it would have meant that 38 percent of the town’s total population were unauthorized alien workers using a single address.

    TIGTA said there were 154 addresses around the country that appeared on 1,000 or more ITIN applications made to the IRS.

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    Cato Policy Analysis No. 222 April 15, 1995
    Why You Can't Trust the IRS

    by Daniel J. Pilla
    Daniel J. Pilla is a tax litigation consultant in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of eight self-help books on dealing with the IRS, including How to Fire the IRS (Winning Publications, 1994).

    Executive Summary
    By the end of this year some 40 million Americans will have had an adversarial confrontation with the Internal Revenue Service. In a rising number of such confrontations, the taxpayer is right, and the IRS is wrong. This study finds that despite a doubling of its budget over the past 10 years and a nearly 20 percent increase in enforcement personnel, the IRS is increasingly incapable of administering and enforcing the nation's tax law. The following are some of the reasons the IRS can no longer be trusted.

    • The IRS telephone taxpayer assistance program provides about 8.5 million Americans the wrong answers to even the most basic inquiries about the tax laws.
    • This year roughly 10 million Americans will receive correction notices from the IRS assessing about $4 billion. About half of those notices will be erroneous.
    • About 40 percent of the revenues the IRS collects through penalty assessments are abated when citizens challenge the penalties. In 1993 taxpayers were over- charged $5 billion.
    • A General Accounting Office audit of the IRS in 1993 found widespread evidence of financial malfeasance and gross negligence. The IRS could not account for 64 percent of its congressional appropriation.

    The IRS fails to meet the standards of financial accountability and diligence that it imposes on the citizenry. Since the IRS can no longer adequately police itself, it can no longer be trusted with the authority to police individual American businesses and taxpayers.
    Introduction
    The Internal Revenue Service is often portrayed as the nation's most, if not only, efficient government agency. With a 1993 operating budget of $7.11 billion and total revenue collections of $1.176 trillion, the IRS collected $100 of tax for every 63 cents of cost.[1] For that reason, Congress has come to regard the IRS as a good deal for taxpayers. Congress has doubled the IRS budget over the past 10 years--making that agency one of the fastest growing nonentitlement programs. It has increased its employment by 20 percent. The IRS wields awesome collection powers. Its powers to investigate and examine taxpayers transcend those of any other law enforcement agency. Virtually all of the constitutional rights regarding search and seizure, due process, and jury trial simply do not apply to the IRS. Its investigative powers are enormous: the IRS has more enforcement agents than the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Drug Enforcement Agency combined. That leads to the question, can the IRS be trusted to do the right thing with regard to tax law enforcement and administration? To answer that question, various aspects of IRS behavior in those general areas are examined.
    Unfortunately, this study shows that the trust that Congress has placed in the IRS is dangerously misplaced. A review of the IRS's recent performance presents a picture of an error-prone, negligent, and inefficient agency. The widespread incompetence of the IRS calls into question the agency's ability to enforce and administer our current income tax system.
    The IRS Environment--The Tax Laws
    Before the shortcomings of the IRS are examined, the hopelessly complicated tax system the IRS administers is discussed.
    Tax Law Complexity and the IRS
    When the income tax law first took effect in 1913, it had just 170 pages of law and regulation. Since then the tax code has grown to encompass over 17,000 pages of law and regulation. On top of that, hundreds of thousands of pages of court decisions interpret that law. Additional interpretations come in the form of IRS revenue rulings, revenue procedures, opinion letters, information letters, technical advice memoranda, private letter rulings, chief counsel orders and notices, and general counsel memoranda. It is a virtual impossibility for a tax attorney--let alone a typical taxpayer--to keep up with all the changes.
    In the 1980s the tax laws were altered more than 100 times. In 1986 Americans were presented with the most sweeping tax law change in 30 years--intended to simplify the tax code. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 brought amendments to more than 2,000 sections of the code and the creation of more than 100 new forms. To teach us about those forms, the IRS produces thousands of pages of instructions, and hundreds of booklets to teach us about the instructions.
    The tax change parade continued into the 1990s. Major tax modifications occurred in both 1990 and 1993, with many minor ones in between. The 1994 mid-term congressional elections promise new, sweeping tax law reforms now that Republicans have control of Congress.
    Any tax law change, large or small, is no easy matter for the IRS. Consider the burdens the agency faced in 1993 alone; it was expected to

    • revise and test more than 6,100 computer software programs;
    • revise automated tax information scripts for telephone inquiries;
    • train 29,000 service center employees to process returns, compute bills and refunds, and make adjustments;
    • train 8,000 taxpayer service employees who answer 40 million taxpayer inquiries;
    • design or revise 250 forms and 110 publications;
    • print and distribute over 1.3 billion copies of forms and instruction; and
    • update taxpayer information and educational materials.[2]

    It is obvious that the constant revisions of the tax code enacted by Congress impede the IRS's efforts to perform administrative and enforcement duties consistently and correctly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Newmexican View Post
    IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address
    June 21, 2013 - 4:18 PM
    By Terence P. Jeffrey

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    Why are none of the addresses listed so that someone can go out and see who or what is at those addresses?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    Why are none of the addresses listed so that someone can go out and see who or what is at those addresses?
    Oh, that might invade their privacy....
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    Unbelievable: IRS sends $46 million in tax returns to 24,000 ‘unauthorized alien workers’ in Atlanta

    Monday, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:47 PM EDT




    Video at the Page Link:http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/06/24/...99-in-atlanta/

    As though the IRS couldn’t get any more bad press, a 2012 audit report shows that in 2011 the IRS sent more than $46 million in tax refunds to 23,994 “unauthorized” alien workers who all listed the exact same Atlanta, GA address.

    According to TheBlaze, the report, conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), was published last year at the request of members of Congress. It 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.

    “Are you telling me we don’t have a computer that spits that anomaly out,” Glenn asked on radio this morning. “There’s nothing that says, ‘Hey, warning.’ Nothing?

    TheBlaze reports the “TIGTA report explains that the IRS since 1996 has been issuing what it calls Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to both non-resident aliens who have tax liability in the U.S. and illegal aliens living in the U.S. but who are ‘not authorized to work in the country.’”

    It looks like Washington has known about this abuse for the better part of a decade, with a 1999 TIGTA report specifically drawing attention to the ITINs problem:

    “The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to undocumented aliens to improve nonresident alien compliance with tax laws. This IRS practice seems counter-productive to the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) mission to identify undocumented aliens and prevent unlawful alien entry.”

    In addition to the 23,994 refunds in Atlanta, TheBlaze explains that the IRS assigned 15,028 unauthorized aliens ITINs at the same address in Dallas, Texas, and 10,356 ITINs at the same address in Atlantic City, N.J.

    “So I’d like to know, where did these go? And where’s all this money,” Glenn asked. “Did it go to drug dealers? Who did this? Tell me, tell me that you have 23,994 checks, there’s no alarm that says we have made a check out to this address 2,300 times, I’m sorry, 24,000 times. No alarm?”
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    “You could understand it if they sent two different checks to the same address and screwed up that way,” Pat said. “You can’t understand it when it’s 24,000 checks to the same address and they are all illegal aliens? And it’s 46 million in total? That’s unconscionable.”
    “Unauthorized” alien workers around the country have been able to scam the system for millions and millions of dollars for decades, while law abiding TEA Party members are audited.
    “Maybe you should spend less time on the TEA Party and more time on this,” Glenn said. “And you know what? And you know who continues to work on this? The Senate and the House, continue to make sure that we’ve got even more benefits for illegal aliens. I don’t know about you, but I think we’ve done enough here. I think we’ve done enough. I’m not interested in any kind of new legislation whatsoever on any of this stuff.”

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