iccad@tekig.UUCP (IC Computer Aided Design) (04/05/84)
The other day, a friend of mine said he had seen a newspaper article which described some sort of a movement on the part of somebody or other to generate dummy income tax returns as a scheme to undermine the IRS. The idea, as I understood it, was that if a certain percentage of the return-filing population filed an extra return at tax time, with completely fictitious information (name, address, SS#, etc, etc.) it would clog up the IRS's administrative system so badly that they would be unable to operate. Has anybody out there heard anything about this? I would presume that it's another crank scheme, but I did hear on a network news program the other day that some convict in a Georgia prison wanted to get transferred to a federal prison, so he decided that he would have to commit a federal crime while in prison in order to get transferred. So he filed a number of bogus tax returns in the names of his fellow inmates, and then sat back and waited to get indicted. To his surprise, his fellow inmates started receiving tax refund checks! He had to write several letters of confession to various IRS departments before he finally got his wish. ?
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (04/05/84)
>> ...The idea, as I understood it, was that if a certain percentage of >> the return-filing population filed an extra return at tax time, with >> completely fictitious information (name, address, SS#, etc, etc.) it >> would clog up the IRS's administrative system so badly that they >> would be unable to operate. Great. Just wonderful. Generate enough chaos and you can cost the IRS tremendous amounts in temporary employees, emergency equipment and office space rental, and perhaps even some tax revenues lost in the confusion. What will the result be? Next year's deficit and next year's taxes will be that much bigger! Now that's what I call clear thinking. :-( --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle
smeier@ihuxt.UUCP (S. Meier) (04/06/84)
>> ...The idea, as I understood it, was that if a certain percentage of >> the return-filing population filed an extra return at tax time, with >> completely fictitious information (name, address, SS#, etc, etc.) it >> would clog up the IRS's administrative system so badly that they >> would be unable to operate. Yeah, and then I wouldn't get my refund until November, if ever.