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the endless war is not going well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research<\/em><\/p>\n

the fraudsters of the world continue to see the u.s. treasury as a bountiful chest of riches just waiting to be plundered.<\/p>\n

it doesn\u2019t take much. a taxpayer\u2019s name, a social security number, a bank account number, maybe an email address, a phone number and a little luck.<\/p>\n

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the irs is used to this. it knows what to do about it.<\/p>\n

it just doesn\u2019t do it very well.
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\n2.8 million suspensions<\/strong><\/p>\n

the irs analyzes all tax returns claiming refunds through a variety of filters, models and rules that flag possible identity theft and non-identity theft fraud. when the process detects something suspicious, it suspends the return and turns the cases over to the taxpayer protection program.<\/p>\n

this happened 2.8 million times this year as of april 17. as of april 18, 627,000 taxpayers had authenticated their returns. another 308,000 were released after confirmation by other means.<\/p>\n

that left almost 2 million returns mired somewhere between limbo and hell \u2013 but only for a couple of years.<\/p>\n

the number of cases referred to the tpp increased an astonishing 33 percent this year.<\/p>\n

a lot of the increase may reflect an increase in breaches against individuals and businesses, not to mention the usual variety of phishing scams.<\/p>\n

a lot of others were flagged simply because a taxpayer had claimed the fuel tax credit, which should have been verified under the non-identity theft refund fraud program. so some 420,306 taxpayers received \u201cletters 5747c, potential identity theft during original processing \u2013 tac auth only\u201d forms.<\/p>\n

that number reflects an increase of no less than 264 percent.<\/p>\n

better a coin flip<\/strong><\/p>\n

another part of the problem is an absurdly high false detection rate of 54 percent. in other words, a coin flip would do better than the mighty (mighty old) irs computer system.<\/p>\n

stats for non-identity theft refund fraud aren\u2019t much better. the number of returns flagged was up 352 percent from last year, a total of 2.6 million. but 2 million of them were released by april 17, 2024.<\/p>\n

part of the initial problem was a delay by the social security administration in submitting w-2 data to the irs. returns filed before the data came in were often flagged as possibly fraudulent. so early returns meant late delayed refunds.<\/p>\n

despite the high false detection rate, the irs sends hapless taxpayers just one notice that their returns have been suspended. if the taxpayer understands the problem and what needs to be done, he or she must<\/p>\n