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By the end of 2022, 2.5 million people ignored letters from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) asking them to verify their identity before receiving a federal income tax refund. According to USA Today, among these people there may be truly careless taxpayers, but most are scammers.
The IRS has been tasked with auditing tax returns, which in theory can weed out fraudulent refund claims. At the first stage, the agency uses software tools to try to identify unusual nuances in applications that may indicate fraud. In particular, salaries and income in general are compared between applicants and actual taxpayers from IRS databases.
If the declaration contains signs of the use of someone else's personal data, the Tax Service will not process the application and send money. Instead, the IRS will send the applicant a letter asking them to verify their identity. At the same time, genuine demands for the transfer of funds often remain unsatisfied, since citizens ignore such letters from tax officials.
In this regard, experts are calling for reforms, including the IRS online tools. Some innovations were announced in 2022, however, according to journalists, they were never implemented, which makes the vulnerability of the systems quite high. In addition, the situation is causing serious delays in the payment of money to both law-abiding Americans and scammers. Sometimes funds are transferred only 9-10 weeks after the IRS receives the application, and in one case it took 18 weeks for verification.
The IRS has been tasked with auditing tax returns, which in theory can weed out fraudulent refund claims. At the first stage, the agency uses software tools to try to identify unusual nuances in applications that may indicate fraud. In particular, salaries and income in general are compared between applicants and actual taxpayers from IRS databases.
If the declaration contains signs of the use of someone else's personal data, the Tax Service will not process the application and send money. Instead, the IRS will send the applicant a letter asking them to verify their identity. At the same time, genuine demands for the transfer of funds often remain unsatisfied, since citizens ignore such letters from tax officials.
In this regard, experts are calling for reforms, including the IRS online tools. Some innovations were announced in 2022, however, according to journalists, they were never implemented, which makes the vulnerability of the systems quite high. In addition, the situation is causing serious delays in the payment of money to both law-abiding Americans and scammers. Sometimes funds are transferred only 9-10 weeks after the IRS receives the application, and in one case it took 18 weeks for verification.
