Wednesday, November 20, 2013

When will Congress do something about the Idiotic Revenue Service?


Would you like to know why you pay so much in taxes? It's so we can send refunds to non-existent people in Lithuania and Bulgaria.

The IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year, much of it going to foreign addresses. J. Russell George, the Treasury's inspector general for tax administration, says they're stepping up action, but "thieves are getting more aggressive."

How hard is it for the computer to figure out that 655 tax refunds went to the same address in Lithuania? Just how smart was the thief who pulled that off? I don't think it takes an aggressive or even a smart thief when the people doling out our money are idiots.

"IRS sent 655 bogus refunds to Lithuania." The Dallas Morning News; November 8, 2013; p. 6A.

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