IRS may have sent more than $5B to identity thieves
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NBC
Article date:
August 2, 2012
Article category:
National News
Article link:
Medium
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Investigators say the Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011.
They estimate that another $21 billion could make its way to ID thieves' pockets over the next five years.
The Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration says the IRS is detecting far fewer fraudulent tax refund claims than actually occur ...
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