{"id":31261,"date":"2017-07-25T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31261"},"modified":"2017-07-25T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T17:27:25","slug":"the-need-for-fiscal-responsibility-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31261","title":{"rendered":"The Need For Fiscal Responsibility In Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Washington Times <\/a>reported that the Internal Revenue Service<\/a> was extremely generous with taxpayer money–paying millions of dollars in refunds to people who were not legally entitled to them.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The IRS<\/a> doled out more than $24 billion in potentially bogus refunds claimed under several controversial tax credits<\/a> in 2016, according to a new audit that said $118 million was even paid to people who weren\u2019t authorized to work in the U.S. in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some $16.8 billion in payments were made on improper claims under the Earned Income Tax Credit<\/a>, signifying a 24 percent error<\/a> rate. Investigators also estimated $7.2 billion in improper payments for the Additional Child Tax Credit<\/a>, representing 25 percent of the total, and $1.1 billion in improper payments, or 24 percent, for a higher education tax credit<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The totals and error rates for the earned income and child credits were comparable for 2015, while the education tax credit saw improvement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains that Congress<\/a> passed a law in 2015 that was supposed to curb payments to people who were not entitled to them.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Both the inspector general and the tax agency said that steps have already been taken to try to prevent a repeat in the future, saying that a law passed in late 2015 should help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration<\/a> J. Russell George said the IRS<\/a> needs to follow through on the 2015 law, which imposes more restrictions on certain filers and delays refunds for people claiming the credits to give agents more time to flag suspicious returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One particular problem the IRS<\/a> faces is checking people who have Social Security numbers<\/a> but who aren\u2019t authorized to work in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one place that the federal budget could be easily cut. Tax refunds should only go to the people entitled to receive them.<\/p>\n

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