With Tax Deadline Looming, Comptroller Warns Against Fraud
The State Comptroller’s Office said today that with the tax deadline approaching tomorrow, the state has stopped nearly $13 million in questionable income tax refunds from being paid so far in 2008.
DiNapoli said the majority of questionable refunds were filed by income-tax preparers who promise taxpayers large refunds. The most common example is people claiming credits for ineligible child care or credits allowed only for low-income households, he said.
“Doing your taxes isn’t easy and sometimes taxpayers make honest mistakes,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “But there are those who try to beat the system through outright fraud. The scams can be elaborate and hard to spot.”
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what about when the government steals your money and gives it to someone else or dumps into their own salary or bureaucracy? Ala George Oros who soaks in a pension and salary for a part time job while seeking other work? another perspective. It is stealing to break the tax laws, but it is also stealing to take tax dollars and waste them. So the state can kiss it as far as I am concerned