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Audit Finds Significant Increase in Fraudulent Tax Returns Filed by Prisoners
Loaded on Dec. 3, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2014, page 46
Audit Finds Significant Increase in Fraudulent Tax Returns Filed by Prisoners
Prisoners are filing phony federal income tax returns in record numbers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continues to pay refunds despite repeated warnings from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Inspector General J. Russell George told a ...
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