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This photo taken March 22, 2013, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. The IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to a Treasury report released Thursday. The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Crime

Report: IRS refunded $4B to identity thieves

Associated Press, Stephen Ohlemacher -

November 7, 2013 9:16 pm

A recent report by the IRS inspector general says the agency has given out somewhere between $110 billion and $132 billion in improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments in the last decade. In that time period, between 21and 30 percent of tax credit payments went to people who didn't qualify for them. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

News

700 IRS contract workers owe $5.4m in back taxes

Associated Press, Stephen Ohlemacher -

October 23, 2013 4:00 am