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Two Honduran men living illegally in eastern North Carolina each will spend more than four years in federal prison for their roles in a scheme to collect millions of dollars in federal income tax refunds filed under fictitious identities, one of which was used to register to vote in Wake County.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As income-tax filing season for the 2013 tax year reaches its peak, billions of dollars in fraudulent refunds continue to flow to scam artists using stolen or fabricated identities and fake dependents to take advantage of a major loophole in the way the federal government issues refunds to...
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The victims of stolen-identity tax refund fraud are real people, not just statistics. Two of them, whose names came up in a Carolina Journal...
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 @ 6:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A stolen-identity tax refund scheme uncovered by a Durham retiree in March apparently is so widespread that one federal official has described it as the "No. 1 tax scam for 2013."
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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