|
IRS
sent $46 million in tax refunds
to 23,994 unauthorized aliens at same address
By
Jason Howerton
June
21, 2013
The
IRS sent more than $46 million
in tax refunds to 23,994 “unauthorized” alien workers who all listed
the same
address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to an audit report by the
Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
However,
the Atlanta address that
received millions of dollars in refunds was not the only address
apparently
housing thousands of “unauthorized” aliens. In fact, it wasn’t even the
only
address in Atlanta that was claiming such a situation.
The
TIGTA audit report, published
last year at the request of members of Congress, revealed 10 addresses
in the
U.S. that were issued anywhere from 1,846 to 23,994 tax refunds each.
Four of
those 10 addresses were located in Atlanta.
CNSNews.com
breaks down the report:
The
IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a
combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta
address;
3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a
fourth.
Other
locations on the IG’s Top Ten
list for singular addresses that were theoretically used simultaneously
by
thousands of unauthorized alien workers, included an address in Oxnard,
Calif,
where the IRS sent 2,507 refunds worth $10,395,874; an address in
Raleigh,
North Carolina, where the IRS sent 2,408 refunds worth $7,284,212; an
address
in Phoenix, Ariz., where the IRS sent 2,047 refunds worth $5,558,608;
an
address in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the IRS sent 1,972 refunds
worth
$2,256,302; an address in San Jose, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,942
refunds
worth $5,091,027; and an address in Arvin, Calif., where the IRS sent
1,846
refunds worth $3,298,877.
TheBlaze
has reviewed the audit
report, posted on the Treasury Department’s website, to confirm the
information
in CNSNews.com’s report.
The
TIGTA report explains that the
IRS since 1996 has been issuing what it calls Individual Taxpayer
Identification Numbers (ITINs) to both non-resident aliens who have tax
liability in the U.S. and illegal aliens living in the U.S. but who are
“not
authorized to work in the country.”
Washington
has apparently been
aware of the problem for the better part of a decade.
“The
IRS has long known it was
giving these numbers to illegal aliens, and thus facilitating their
ability to
work illegally in the United States. For example, the Treasury
Inspector
General’s Semiannual Report to Congress published on Oct. 29,
1999—nearly
fourteen years ago—specifically drew attention to this problem,”
CNSNews.com
explains…
Read
the rest of the article at
The
Blaze
|
