kcjenkins Posted October 17, 2012 Report Posted October 17, 2012 One of the issues in ID Theft is people filing tax returns using someone else's SSN. The IRS has stated that taxpayers have the right to obtain all tax returns filed using their own SSN. Thus that fraudulent return filed using your SSN you have the right to obtain. To obtain a copy of any fraudulent return(s) filed under your SSN submit a Form 4506 to the IRS and ask for all returns filed under your SSN. Right to obtain copy of ID Theft returns is per IRS memo dated Jan 12 2012 by Chief of CI at http://www.irs.gov/pub/lanoa/pmta_2012-05.pdf 1 Quote
kcjenkins Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Posted October 17, 2012 Chuck Rettig’s firm has posted an article on ID theft on their website. Here is what he says about the article. Here is a link to a recent article re "Identity theft as used to commit tax fraud, the actions taken by the IRS to combat this fraud and steps that individuals and practitioners may take to keep at-risk information private." http://www.taxlitigator.com/main/images/stories/Identity_Theft.pdf I have not yet read the article but the prior ones I have read are top notch. Quote
BulldogTom Posted October 17, 2012 Report Posted October 17, 2012 I just had my first client get caught up in ID Theft. Efiled his return on the 14th. On the 15th it was rejected by IRS for duplicate submission. We called and they said a return had been filed asking for a refund to be sent to a bank account. Paper filed the return and the account is frozen now. IRS says it takes about 6 months to get it cleaned up because they are so backlogged with this problem. Funny thing is - the clients laughed their heads off because they owe back taxes and are hoping the IRS applies the fraudulent return to the amount that they owe. This is going to be fun to clean up...NOT. Tom Hollister, CA 2 Quote
Tax Prep by Deb Posted October 17, 2012 Report Posted October 17, 2012 Tom, I've had several clients that have been victims. And while it does take some time everything did get taken care of. In the past (it's been about 3 years since I've had an identity theft client) we sent in police report, social security letters, our own letter, a list of employees worked for, ect.... and it has always been straightened out. My cases have all envolved those dreaded notices with additional income not claimed on my clients return. We simply says yes this is ours, or no way I've never even been in that state, or never worked for that employer. At least IRS is taking a stand on it now. Deb! Quote
Jack from Ohio Posted October 17, 2012 Report Posted October 17, 2012 ...Funny thing is - the clients laughed their heads off because they owe back taxes and are hoping the IRS applies the fraudulent return to the amount that they owe... Tom Hollister, CA So they want our tax money to pay their taxes? They must be liberals... I don't see the humor here.... Quote
BulldogTom Posted October 17, 2012 Report Posted October 17, 2012 <<I don't see the humor here....>> The humor is that the scammer picked a taxpayer who owes the IRS, there was no way they were going to get away with it. It would have been even funnier if the IRS siezed the bank account that they were trying to deposit the money into. Tom Hollister, CA 2 Quote
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