By Rob Stallworth
InPublicSafety.com
Several years ago I noticed more and more commercials on TV and radio promising to “get the maximum refund possible” from your tax returns. Apparently a number of offenders in prison heard the same commercials because in recent years inmate tax refund fraud has skyrocketed!
Last year alone, the IRS caught and stopped more than $1.7 billion in fraudulent tax returns by prisoners, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George.
“It’s a serious problem…the fact that prisoners, people who have been convicted of crimes, are able to manipulate the tax system to their advantage and for many years undetected and at a growing rate is something that must be taken seriously and is of great concern,” he said in this news article.
Full story: Inmates Bank Big Money Through Tax Refund Fraud
