If Illegals Are Paying Taxes With Bogus S.S.N. Is It Fraud to Collect a Tax Refund?

Question by Kize: If illegals are paying taxes with bogus S.S.N. is it fraud to collect a tax refund?
They say illegals are paying taxes but get no refunds, we know this is a lie.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio…
Should a program like e-verify be used for tax returns?
How can we stop these illegals from collecting refunds they don’t deserve?
What do you think of this tax fraud. Did these illegals know what they were doing? I believe so.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20100205/NEWS/100209908/1017/NEWS?p=1&tc=pg

Drug raid uncovers massive tax fraud scheme

By Lisa Rogers
Times Staff Writer

Published: Friday, February 5, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.

An income tax fraud scheme discovered during a drug raid Thursday night is expected to lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal tax refunds.

“I wouldn’t be surprised it went into the millions,” Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin said during a news conference Friday.

Agents went to a mobile home on Sligo Road, just off Egypt Road in the Rockledge community, Thursday night to raid a suspected methamphetamine distribution ring and discovered more evidence than expected in the tax scheme.

Lori Lei Bodden, 41, her husband, Carlos Cardona-Herrera, 36, and Juan Hernandez-Telle, 22, were charged with trafficking in methamphetamine. Bodden is expected to be charged with distribution of methamphetamine.

Three-fourths of a pound of methamphetamine in its purest form, ice, was found hidden in a baby wipes container. The drugs have a street value of about $ 40,000.

Three children under the age of 4 were in the mobile home when agents raided it Thursday night and the Etowah County Department of Human Resources was called.

The drugs, along with guns, swords, cash, vehicles, a boat and several computers, were seized during the raid.

Those computers are expected to provide more information about the tax scheme, Entrekin said.

It is believed Bodden was filing income tax returns from her mobile home, primarily tax returns for illegal immigrants, and claiming the first-time home buyers tax credit of $ 8,000.

If someone is using a Social Security number and paid taxes through an employer, income tax returns can be filed.

“This was a very organized and elaborate tax fraud scheme,” Entrekin said. Records to confirm about $ 200,000 in tax refunds were discovered.

It is suspected that many more tax returns have been filed electronically and that information can be obtained through a forensic investigation of the computers.

It appears Bodden was profiting by filing the returns and charging 25 percent of the tax refund. The refunds were deposited into a bank account over which she had control.

Agents found one instance in which a person’s refund was about $ 12,000 and she made $ 2,700.

District Attorney Jimmie Harp gave an example of one tax return in which a person believed to be in the U.S. illegally made $ 6,000 last year and got a $ 13,000 refund using the tax credit.

Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit Commander Rob Savage said investigators have not found any homes listed as purchased on the returns that even exist.

“One was the address of a vacant lot,” he said.

Internal Revenue Service investigators have been contacted and are working the case.

“This started as a relatively routine narcotics case,” Savage said. “We are somewhat outraged to see this occurring. The victims are the taxpayers.

“This was in a double-wide trailer in the middle of western Etowah County.”

Brenn Tallent, supervisory resident agent at the Gadsden FBI office, said the tax scheme is a new twist for the partners in the Safe Streets Task Force.

“We’ve been taking drugs, guns and bad guys off the streets, but this is a crime we haven’t seen,” Tallent said. “I commend the agents on the streets for a job well done.”
If they are paying in, it is with fake and stolen S.S.N. So it is another crime commited by them

Best answer:

Answer by GirlyGurl
FALSE! here’s the drill:

People enter the country illegally, some promptly procure bogus Social Security cards from the black market, and use them to get jobs. Eventually they get paid, and those earnings generate W-2s that go to the Social Security Administration, which tucks them away in something called the “earnings suspense file.” (The government does try to notify some of the larger employers that Social Security cards they’ve accepted appear to be phony, but that’s about the extent of its efforts to figure out where all this money is coming from.) According to the best estimates of the Social Security Administration, the fund has kept track over the last 20 years of more than 0 billion in total earnings – the vast majority of them attributable to illegal immigrants.
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050410/news_mz1e10ruben.html

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