IRS missing billions in ID theft

[freeatlast]

The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion....
http://news.yahoo.com/irs-missing-billions-id-theft-164707999.html

 

[LadyEagle]

And these people are going to be managing our health insurance tax?

 

[targus]

"In one example, investigators found a single address in Lansing, Mich., that was used to file 2,137 separate tax returns. The IRS issued more than $3.3 million in refunds to that address. Three addresses in Florida, the epicenter of the identity theft crisis, filed more than 500 returns totaling more than $1 million in refunds for each address.

In another troubling scenario, hundreds of refunds were deposited into the same bank account — a red flag for investigators searching for ID thieves who may be filing for refunds for multiple people. In one instance, the IRS deposited 590 refunds totaling more than $900,000 into one account."

This is nothing short of gross neglect if not criminal neglect.

Why do the heads of the IRS still have their jobs?

Both of these should have been easily detected given that the refund side of the IRS is (or should be) highly computerized.

A simple cross checking of bank deposit numbers and/or addresses for multiple refunds should have been automatically flagged by computer before sending them out.

 

[freeatlast]

This is nothing short of gross neglect if not criminal neglect.

Why do the heads of the IRS still have their jobs?

Both of these should have been easily detected given that the refund side of the IRS is (or should be) highly computerized.

A simple cross checking of bank deposit numbers and/or addresses for multiple refunds should have been automatically flagged by computer before sending them out.

Yes I agree. Our government is out of control in just about every area.