<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Taxpayer Identity Theft is soaring<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/taxpayer-identity-theft-is-soaring/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| June 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM | Tags: GAO <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=gao>, illegal immigrants<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=illegal-immigrants>, IRS <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=irs>, President Obama<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=president-obama>, taxpayer identity theft<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=taxpayer-identity-theft>| Categories: Political Issues <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?cat=35145> | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5n3
Life is rough, times are hard and low-life thieves are making things worse for American taxpayers. WASHINGTON<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_taxes_identity_theft_2>– Imagine filing your tax return and learning that someone else got your refund. With your name and Social Security number, no less. The IRS is grappling with a nearly five-fold increase in taxpayer identity theft between 2008 and 2010, a Government Accountability Office official plans to tell a House hearing Thursday. *There were 248,357 incidents in 2010, compared to 51,702 in 2008.* Notice how the numbers are always worse under Obama but the mainstream media doesn't make those connections? So much for O's claim that he would cut waste and fraud. The GAO findings, obtained by The Associated Press, don't begin to describe the pain for a first-time victim, who must wait for a refund while the IRS sorts out which return is real and which is a fraud. *Many identity thieves don't get prosecuted*, according James White, director of strategic issues for the GAO.. "IRS officials told us that IRS pursues criminal investigations of suspected identity thieves in only a small number of cases," White says in testimony prepared for a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee. He said that in the 2010 fiscal year, the IRS criminal investigations division initiated just over *4,700 investigations of all types — far less than the identity theft cases alone.* "We want to know why this problem is apparently getting much worse," said Rep. Todd Platts, R-Pa., chairman of the subcommittee. "By bringing these issues to the public as quickly as possible, the committee hopes to give citizens the necessary information so they can protect themselves from such identity theft." ...*Some thieves steal a name and Social Security number to obtain a job*. The employer will report the thief's wage information to the IRS, as would the legitimate taxpayer's employer. The victim then would receive an unwelcome IRS notice that he or she failed to report everything that was earned. The victim would then need to work with the tax agency to sort things out. How many of those thieves you wanna bet are illegal immigrants undocumented Democrats? Continue reading>>><http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_taxes_identity_theft_2> Add a comment to this post<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/taxpayer-identity-theft-is-soaring/#respond> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/20649/> [image: WordPress] WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/> | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com>| Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com&b=LsROtlf%25rG%2BuPW3A3dmAtEBac53q%25RvT-ET5Uum%2C1cmvG-ZO25>| Publish text, photos, music, and videos by email using our Post by Email <http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/> feature. *Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:* http://subscribe.wordpress.com -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
