In brief, the scheme involved the electronic filing of thousands of tax returns using Social Security numbers assigned to residents of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Residents of Puerto Rico are issued Social Security numbers, but typically do not file federal tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) because, in general, such filing is not required as long as all of the Puerto Rico resident’s income is derived from Puerto Rican sources. Here, the fraudulent tax returns falsely claim that the filer resides in one of the fifty states of the United States. The use of Puerto Rican Social Security numbers minimizes the risk that a legitimate federal tax return was already filed by the legitimate holder of the Social Security number.
During the investigation it was determined that, during the one-month period between January 16 and February 18, 2009, approximately 8,000 federal tax returns were electronically filed via Internet websites run by a particular company. Substantially all of those returns were filed from the Dominican Republic, and nearly every one sought a refund. The total amount of refunds sought by those approximately 8,000 federal tax returns was over approximately $90 million. Moreover, 3,300 of those returns, seeking approximately $32 million in refunds, had been “accepted” by the IRS, which means that refund checks would have been sent out. Thus far, however, the IRS has determined that over approximately 2,000 of those returns were fraudulent because the returns indicated that the taxpayer had earned wages from a particular employer in 2008 when, in fact, that was not true. source.
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