{"id":23567,"date":"2011-05-24T06:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23567"},"modified":"2011-05-24T06:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:32:56","slug":"irs-employees-commit-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23567","title":{"rendered":"IRS employees commit tax fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/may\/23\/irs-staff-committed-tax-credit-fraud\/\">Washington Times<\/a> reports that more than 100 IRS employees falsely gave themselves a first time home buyers tax credit last year; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Treasury Department\u2019s inspector general for tax administration, in several reports over the past few years, has identified a total of 128 IRS employees who claimed the credit but who also made other claims that showed they either weren\u2019t first-time buyers or bought their homes outside the eligibility period for the credit, which was worth up to $8,000.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one other IRS employee has been charged with using her position to try to help friends and relatives take advantage of the credit, which was signed by President Bush and then boosted under President Obama\u2019s 2009 stimulus law.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS employees represented a small part of the total fraud in the program, which the inspector general said may have totaled more than a half-billion dollars overall. The inspector general said refundable tax credits, which transfer money back to taxpayers even when their tax liability is zero, \u201care targets for fraud.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to send in a certified copy of my deed to prove that I was qualified for the tax credit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors in Boston say Michael E. Doyle of New Hampshire, who worked for the IRS for about 20 years and who was a supervisor in its Andover, Mass., office, claimed he had bought a home on April 15, 2008. In reality, he bought the home for $260,000 on Aug. 15, 2007, months before the eligibility period.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Doyle\u2019s attorney didn\u2019t respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, part-time IRS employee Catherine Griffin in Georgia has been charged with altering information in IRS computers to help four friends and family members appear eligible for the credit. She charged them $2,000 each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>128 employees committing fraud is an epidemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 1,000 prisoners who received the credit despite being incarcerated at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well we expect felons to commit crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that more than 100 IRS employees falsely gave themselves a first time &hellip; <a title=\"IRS employees commit tax fraud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23567\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRS employees commit tax fraud<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}