Word: frauds
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...that was before taxpayers had to face what some veteran accountants are calling the Tax Season from Hell -- a three-month ordeal climaxing with this week's rush to meet the April 17 deadline for filing tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure to root out more fraud -- and more revenue -- has sharply stepped up the number of returns it rejects and audits. While encouraging taxpayers to file electronically-mainly to save irs manpower and paper work-this year the tax collectors returned, often for minor clerical errors, fully 20% of the 9.9 million electronic returns submitted through late...
...White House officials think tax reformers are misreading the public: what really angers honest taxpayers is the prevalence of cheaters. "We do make mistakes from time to time," says IRS commissioner Margaret Richardson. But she adds, "I think people are more concerned about fraud in the system, and they need an advocate so that everyone pays their fair share." Martin Freeman, a tax preparer in Chicago Heights, Illinois, reports that most of his clients support the IRS crackdown. "They know the new rules are cutting down on fraud," he says. The IRS points out that 98% of all tax returns...
Also caught in the cross fire of the IRS war against fraud are women who when they married neglected to change their name with the Social Security Administration. If the names on a tax return don't exactly match those from SSA, the IRS will reject the returns. That's how Lisa Broeker, 32, a nurse's aide from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, learned that the SSA still had her listed as Lisa Lopez, even though she had paid taxes under her married name for nine years. She was forced to stand in line at the local Social Security office...
...year, is eligible for an earned-income credit of as much as $2,528. The credit operates as a sort of "negative tax," available to workers too poor to owe income tax and is intended to make work more attractive than welfare. The credit, however, has been susceptible to fraud. In order to catch the cheats, the irs has also punished honest taxpayers. Low-income workers for whom the earned-income refund is the biggest chunk of cash they see all year have been waiting eight to 12 weeks or longer. Emma Mejia, 48, a single mother...
...charges against Rowland "are just the tip of the iceberg," Michael Kogut, head of the attorney general's Medicaid fraud unit, told the Boston Herald yesterday...