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Inmate IRS Fraud
Irony of the Month: Inmates have little incentive to stop because they seldom face punishment. Authorities say that's because law enforcement doesn't have the resources to investigate criminals already behind bars.
Inmates scam IRS with false tax returns: Prison inmates are trying to scam the IRS big time.
Dec 25, 2005, 07:32 AM EST
IRS officials detected $68 million in false tax refund applications filed by 18,000 US prisoners for the 2004 tax year.
That accounts for more than one-seventh of all phony refunds nationwide.
In Arizona, convicts were responsible for roughly half of the $600,000 in fraudulent claims detected by Department of Revenue investigators this year.
Nancy Jardini is the chief of IRS criminal investigations. She says that nationwide, inmate fraud has increased 700% in three years.
Inmates have little incentive to stop because they seldom face punishment.
Authorities say that's because law enforcement doesn't have the resources to investigate criminals already behind bars.
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