Yesterday afternoon, the findings of the investigation of the ITIN Department of the IRS were released in a report that showed blatant and easily detectible fraud. The report finds that the “higher-ups” involved in the ITIN tax fraud cared more about processing as many applications as possible, as opposed to properly processing only acceptable ones. […]

We all had our suspicions regarding the reasons for the recent announcement of the Interim Period during which drastic changes are affecting the ITIN process. Some of our early guesses circulated around fraud, of course, but it was only based on the fraud potential on the  “taxpayers” part, and not necessarily confirmed fraud.  A man, […]

It’s a story we’ve come to know so well. The friendly tax preparer who you think you can trust ends up filing false returns and having your money deposited into his account. Once again, we see another preparer, this time unlicensed, doing the wrong thing the wrong way. Job Lopez was sentenced to 6 months […]