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Post by avordvet on Sept 6, 2017 10:54:10 GMT -5
Yeah, Trump is really draining that swamp... Not! IRS won't warn a half-million victims about undocumented workers stealing their Social Security numbersBob Segall, Published: Aug 30th, 2017 - 7:20pm (EDT) Updated: Sep 1st, 2017 - 12:55am (EDT) Washington, D.C. (WTHR) - Two years after WTHR exposed the Internal Revenue Service ignoring millions of cases of identity theft, the federal agency’s own inspector general says the problem is even larger than expected – and the IRS is unwilling to take steps to protect hundreds of thousands of victims. Following the Eyewitness News investigation, the U.S. Treasury’s Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reviewed millions of tax returns filed by undocumented workers in 2015. The inspector general released a formal audit report this summer showing those tax returns include an estimated 1.5 million cases of identity theft. (That’s for a single year reviewed.) After WTHR’s reporting, the IRS pledged to better identify victims, to place a warning on their accounts and to notify them of suspected identity theft. But the TIGTA audit reveals that did not happen in hundreds of thousands of cases. www.wthr.com/article/irs-wont-warn-a-half-million-victims-about-undocumented-workers-stealing-their-social
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