The extreme liberal re-distributors and Keynesian nutjobs probably see this slight oversight by the IRS as beneficial to the economy. The $148 billion of fraudulent payments to the free shit armies in the Democratic run urban ghetto kill zones were pumped into the economy for drugs, KFC, malt liquor, abortions, Cadillac Escallades, iPhones, and Air Jordans.
I’m sure some Democrat shrew Congresswoman with an IQ of 75 will hold a press conference to declare that every dollar of fraudulent Earned Income Credit leads to $1.60 of economic prosperity. These fraudulent distributions of taxpayer dollars has surely created 1 million jobs.
If these government bozos can fuck up such an easy program, imagine what they can do for your healthcare. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out.
Hat tip Boston Bob.
IRS Paid Out Billions In Tax Credits To Ineligible People
by Caroline May
The Internal Revenue Service issued up to $15.6 billion in tax credits to people who weren’t eligible for them, about a quarter of the total credits they issued of that type, according to a new inspectors general report.
According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), in FY 2013 the IRS improperly paid out between $13.3 billion and $15.6 billion worth of EITC, or between 22 to 26 percent of total EITC payments.
Earned Income Tax Credits are benefits available to low to moderate income earners, which can reduce the amount a taxpayer may owe the IRS and may also provide a refund.
The IRS and TIGTA considers an improper ETIC payment to be one that should not have been made, was made in an incorrect amount, or provided to an ineligible recipient.
The level of improper payments has been a perennial problem for the IRS. Since 2003 the percentage of improper payments has not dipped below 21 percent. In that timeframe the IRS has paid out a total of more than $148 billion in improper EITC payments.
Indeed the Office of Management and Budget considers the EITC to be a high-risk program for these types of problems. It is IRS’ only such high-risk revenue program. And this year still, TIGTA concluded that the IRS has not made much progress in reducing improper payments of this kind.
The findings came in a review of the IRS compliance with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA), which requires federal agencies to estimate improper payments if they are “significant.”
“The intent of this law is to help ensure that the Government serves as a responsible steward for the tax dollars it collects. As noted in previous TIGTA reports, the IRS can and must do more to protect taxpayer dollars from waste, fraud, and abuse,” J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, said in a statement.
TIGTA did not make any recommendations in its report, but noted that the IRS has indicated that it is working with the Treasury Department and OMB to develop more ways to come in compliance with the IPERA.
Complexity creates problems and chaos.
The EIC is one complex monstrosity, just like the other millions of words and rules of IRS regulations.
Scrapping it and starting over would be the only chance to fix it.
It ain’t being fixed.
I’m glad a few WORKING (you have to WORK to get the credit, it ain’t for the welfare, or disability mommy that doesn’t work) stiffs got a few extra bucks.
Why we continue to act like tax dollars matter beyond the control it allows the PTB to exert over us is beyond me.
They are PRINTING the money to fund EVERYTHING. The piddly little taxes they still from you and I mean nothing.
I hope next year a few more thousand get even more “illegal” payments back.
Screw the system, I continue to hope it implodes on itself.
damn WP, they STEAL taxes, not still.
TE,
While I agree with you in principal it still maddens me that so many game the system ultimately screwing those that are honest. I try my best to instill decent morals on my children so that they may live an honest and happy life, but I wonder if when they see this sort of contemptuous behavior all around them they think I am just crazy. Why bother to be honest and decent when you just get screwed in the end, if not by the government, or large corporations, then by our fellow citizens. Also much of the EITC goes to illegal aliens who are already collecting other benefits as the earn much of their income under the table and often claim multiple children who are not even in the country. I wake up in the morning , often wade through an 1-1/2 hour commute to work a 10 hour day and have the same commute on the other end only to have less rights and benefits than many of these ingrates. Fuck them.
Bob.
BostonBob, as the situation progresses, these ingrates will include more and more public sector retirees, mostly boomers who saw their wages rise with the deficit, and get pensions for life bases on the tail end of it, who will demand taxes be increased for everyone to pay for their benefits.
Spoiled Boomer, it’s what’s for dinner.
The other, other white(ish) meat.
Spoiled Boomer? I think not! At least we boomers are getting something for all of the money that was stolen from us to fund SS and Medicare. More like Fresh Fucked Millenials. Just keep working’ so I can enjoy my “benefits” for about 25 more years!