The IRS is working diligently to make sure illegal aliens can use their fraudulent Social Security numbers only for good reasons, while trying to make sure they don’t use the numbers for “bad” reasons.
The bizarre response came when IRS Commissioner John Koskinen a question from Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) during a Senate Finance Committee meeting. Coats said his staff discovered the IRS was seemingly collaborating with taxpayers who fraudulently file tax returns.
“What we learned is that … the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that’s not really our job,” Coats said, The Washington Examiner is reporting. “We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid.”
Asked to explain those practices, Koskinen replied, “What happens in these situations is someone is using a Social Security number to get a job, but they’re filing their tax return with their [taxpayer identification number].” What that means, he said, is that “they are undocumented aliens … . They’re paying taxes. It’s in everybody’s interest to have them pay the taxes they owe.”
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The bizarre response came when IRS Commissioner John Koskinen a question from Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) during a Senate Finance Committee meeting. Coats said his staff discovered the IRS was seemingly collaborating with taxpayers who fraudulently file tax returns.
“What we learned is that … the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that’s not really our job,” Coats said, The Washington Examiner is reporting. “We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid.”
Asked to explain those practices, Koskinen replied, “What happens in these situations is someone is using a Social Security number to get a job, but they’re filing their tax return with their [taxpayer identification number].” What that means, he said, is that “they are undocumented aliens … . They’re paying taxes. It’s in everybody’s interest to have them pay the taxes they owe.”
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/...-file-taxes-with-fake-social-security-numbers
