IRS wastes billions in bogus claims for Earned Income Tax Credit

[decocker 7,198]

Racist ?

As for someone else info..Well when they brag about something and volunteer to show it to you.

As for SSN? Do you have any idea how many illegals are working on "borrowed SSN'.I can tell you it's a lot

yes racist.

first you need to understand the purpose of eic.

second, you need to understand that your story from one dude being an irresponsible provider to his children has little to do with the subject matter at hand.

yep, i have personal experience with stolen ssns. one illegal and one deadbeat dad. my point is that if the irs can determine if a number is stolen or borrowed, then they can stop fraud from occuring.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

yes racist.

first you need to understand the purpose of eic.

second, you need to understand that your story from one dude being an irresponsible provider to his children has little to do with the subject matter at hand.

yep, i have personal experience with stolen ssns. one illegal and one deadbeat dad. my point is that if the irs can determine if a number is stolen or borrowed, then they can stop fraud from occuring.

I understand that EIC is just another well intended liberal program , that just does not work. The IRS should not be in the entitlement business and that is exactly what EIC is.

Millions getting back thousands more than they paid in. Know who benefits. easy credit income tax shysters. used car lots, high end merchandise retailers. Seriously around here when those checks roll in it's like the Christmas shopping season.

Edited October 23, 2013 by The conciliator

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You make a lot of sense..If I could just get you to love guns.LOL

I don't hate guns. I just don't think every citizen and most law enforcement need to be packing heat every time they leave the house. I also support reasonable limitations on what sort of firearms that can be possessed by citizens in general and all firearms should be registered in a national registry. The same sort of liabilities one has owning or registering a motor vehicle should also in the very least apply to firearms.

[Darnell 8,479]

if they can detect the fraud, then they can stop it.

The IRS has already known 'how' , for about 4 years now. I am flummoxed as to 'why' fraud controls haven't been implemented, yet. The problem was identified, the fraud conditions were identified, yet nothing has been done.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

The IRS has already known 'how' , for about 4 years now. I am flummoxed as to 'why' fraud controls haven't been implemented, yet. The problem was identified, the fraud conditions were identified, yet nothing has been done.

I heard the Obama administration is rushing in CGI to write code to fix the problem, just as soon as they are done with healthcare.gov

[decocker 7,198]

I understand that EIC is just another well intended liberal program , that just does not work. The IRS should not be in the entitlement business and that is exactly what EIC is.

Millions getting back thousands more than they paid in. Know who benefits. easy credit income tax shysters. used car lots, high end merchandise retailers. Seriously around here when those checks roll in it's like the Christmas shopping season.

so you don't understand. that's what i thought.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

so you don't understand. that's what i thought.

C. I have no idea idea how to respond to the overwhelming facts you presented, so I will just call you a nut job or insult you and move on, and claim I already answered the question. ( this covers the tin foil hat stupidity

[decocker 7,198]

C. I have no idea idea how to respond to the overwhelming facts you presented, so I will just call you a nut job or insult you and move on, and claim I already answered the question. ( this covers the tin foil hat stupidity

i'm sorry, was that letter for me or you?

let's try again. what is the purpose of EIC?

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Simple. Eliminate the EITC, and go back to the "zero" brackets. That would eliminate income taxes for more income workers, especially those without dependents.

Hmm the thumbs up icon is gone but *THUMBSUP!*

I agree they should eliminate Earned Income (must have named that on opposite day) and raise the zero bracket.... They should also do away with the mortgage write-off but that is a different topic.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

i'm sorry, was that letter for me or you?

let's try again. what is the purpose of EIC?

Heck I forgot. I did honest work today. Cleared land by hand with a chainsaw and bush hook. It took all the fight out of me

Peace

[Janelle2002 3,865]

How about using dead people.

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Todd Halpern

New Jersey Office of the Attorney General

An unlicensed accountant from Livingston has been indicted on charges he masterminded a fraud ring that bilked the state out of $700,000 in unemployment benefits, authorities said.

And among Todd Halperns alleged accomplices: his father and his in-laws.

Halpern, 48, has been charged with first-degree money laundering and second-degree counts of conspiracy and identity theft, according to a grand jury indictment released by the state Attorney Generals Office. He faces up to 20 years in state prison and a $1 million fine if convicted of the money-laundering count.

Authorities say Halpern and 14 others conspired in a scheme that stole $694,606 from the state by filing 36 phony claims for unemployment benefits over a three-and-half year period. The proceeds helped fuel a lavish lifestyle for Halpern, while handsomely benefiting his alleged conspirators, officials said.

State authorities credited anti-fraud software used by the state Department of Labor with taking down the alleged ring. Harold Wirths, commissioner of the Labor Department, said that a series of cross-checks using software put in place since he was appointed to office ended up flagging activities that ultimately led investigators to Halpern.

Without those tools being implemented, these guys wouldnt have been caught, he said in an interview.

The case comes weeks after a state auditor found that the Labor Department, under both the Corzine and Christie administrations, paid out about $10.1 million in unemployment payments to more than 7,600 inmates in state prisons and local jails. At the time the report was issued, Wirths acknowledged such payments were improper and said that the state has been crosschecking county prison populations since March.

The states investigation into Halpern, a former tax preparer, also was independent of a federal probe in which he was charged with filing 657 phony federal tax returns, according to Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for acting Attorney General John Hoffman. Halpern pleaded guilty on June 5 to federal wire and tax fraud charges.

According to the state Attorney Generals Office, the unemployment scheme was devised and driven by Halpern. Over a three-and-a-half year period, he and others allegedly filed unemployment claims in the name of 13 of the defendants, or by using stolen identities and Social Security numbers. They also filed phony paperwork claiming wages earned from real businesses, one of which was linked to Halpern and a co-defendant David Altman, authorities said. The others were either bankrupt businesses or former clients of Halpern or his 74-year-old father, George Halpern, who also was an accountant.

The state alleges that the payout from the fraudulent claims ranged from $1,752 to $51,000.

George Halpern was indicted on second-degree conspiracy and third-degree money laundering and theft-by-deception charges. Reached by telephone, he said he paid back the unemployment benefits he collected. Aseltine, the attorney general spokesman, said he could not comment on George Halperns remark.

Todd Halpern could not be reached at numbers listed for him. An attorney who represented him in the federal criminal matter was on vacation, his office said. Altman also could not be reached.

Also charged were Halperns father- and mother-in-law, Jack and Miriam Chesner of Morris Plains. They, too, face second-degree conspiracy and third-degree money laundering and theft-by-deception charges. Aseltine said Jack Chesner, 81, allegedly received illegal unemployment payments of about $50,000 and his 78-year-old wife endorsed some of the checks.

A message left for the Chesners was not returned. Second-degree charges carry prison sentences of five to 10 years and fines of up $150,000, according to the attorney general.

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