File this under "Proof the USA is screwed beyond belief".

The refund numbers below work out to anywhere from $190 to $3000 each,
with the average being $1600.

Just from the examples given in this story, the IRS handed out a total
of $85 million in refunds to a total of 53,750 "unauthorized" alien
workers - with the refunds sent to a total of just 10 different street
addresses.

I imagine that the residents of those addresses installed extra-large
mail boxes for these special deliveries...

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IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at same
Atlanta Address
June 21, 2013 - 4:18 PM

(CNSNews.com) - The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds
worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all
used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically used by thousands of
“unauthorized” alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds
in 2011. In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year,
four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax
refunds to “unauthorized” aliens were in Atlanta.

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.

Since 1996, the IRS has issued what it calls Individual Taxpayer
Identification Numbers (ITINs) to two classes of persons: 1)
non-resident aliens who have a tax liability in the United States, and
2) aliens living in the United States who are “not authorized to work in
the United States.”

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.

“The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to
undocumented aliens to improve nonresident alien compliance with tax
laws. This IRS practice seems counter-productive to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service’s (INS) mission to identify undocumented aliens
and prevent unlawful alien entry,” TIGTA warned in that long-ago report.

The inspector general’s 2012 audit report on the IRS’s handling of ITINs
was spurred by two IRS employees who went to members of Congress
"alleging that IRS management was requiring employees to assign
Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) even when the
applications were fraudulent.”

In an August 2012 press release accompanying the audit report, TIGTA
said the report “validated” the complaints of the IRS employees.

“TIGTA’s audit found that IRS management has not established adequate
internal controls to detect and prevent the assignment of an ITIN to
individuals submitting questionable applications,” said Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George. “Even more
troubling, TIGTA found an environment which discourages employees from
detecting fraudulent applications.”

In addition to the 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 that
the IRS sent to a single address in Atlanta, the IG also discovered that
the IRS had assigned 15,796 ITINs to unauthorized aliens who presumably
used a single Atlanta address.

The IRS, according to TIGTA, also assigned ITINs to 15,028 unauthorized
aliens presumably using a single address in Dallas, Texas, and 10,356 to
unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Atlantic
City, N.J.

Perhaps the most remarkable act of the IRS was this: It assigned 6,411
ITINs to unauthorized aliens presumably using a single address in
Morganton, North Carolina. According to the 2010 Census, there were only
16,681 people in Morganton. So, for the IRS to have been correct in
issuing 6,411 ITINS to unauthorized aliens at a single address in
Morganton it would have meant that 38 percent of the town’s total
population were unauthorized alien workers using a single address.

TIGTA said there were 154 addresses around the country that appeared on
1,000 or more ITIN applications made to the IRS.

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"Home Guy" wrote in message ...
File this under "Proof the USA is screwed beyond belief".

The refund numbers below work out to anywhere from $190 to $3000 each,
with the average being $1600.

Just from the examples given in this story, the IRS handed out a total
of $85 million in refunds to a total of 53,750 "unauthorized" alien
workers - with the refunds sent to a total of just 10 different street
addresses.

I imagine that the residents of those addresses installed extra-large
mail boxes for these special deliveries...

few years back the IRS nailed a group of ~30 people that ran this scam in
the Dallas area. the little folk received chump change and the big dogs
pocketed the heavy cash under 'refund anticipation loans'.