@someone_else_again Said
It took me a bit to realize that "13 Investigates" was an entity.
It is possible that the information is contained somewhere in your links but ...
I don't understand how they were able to claim the nieces and nephews in Mexico. Don't they have to have ITINs or some identifying number to match up with the child? I have to provide my daughters SSN to get that Tax Credit.
The way I understand it is that the undocumented workers didn't have to have any verifacation such as SS# or birth certificates or school records et,,, for the kids .They just put down names and how they were related , then just gave one address for everyone listed. One of the worker that the reported talked at his residence which is a RV type camp trailer had over 20 people listed as living there on his return. When he was ask about that , he said he had been told it was okay to do it. I never found any thing about
who it was that had told him it was okay.
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An undocumented worker in southern Indiana told 13 Investigates just how easy it truly is.
He said four other illegal immigrants file tax returns using his address, even though none of them actually lives there. And he said this year, those four workers filed tax returns claiming 20 children live inside his small trailer home. As a result, the IRS sent the illegal immigrants tax refunds totaling more than $29,000.
But none of the 20 children listed as dependents on the tax returns lives in Indiana – or even in the United States.
"No, they don't live here," admitted the undocumented worker, who lives with his young daughter. "The other kids are in their country of origin, which is Mexico."
The IRS granted tax credits for the 20 children anyway, even though the agency's own policy states they are not eligible. (Children are eligible for additional child tax credits only if they are US citizens or minor resident aliens who live in the US with a tax filer for more than half of a calendar year.)
According to WTHR's whistleblower, cases like this one are commonplace because the IRS does little to verify the eligibility of both the undocumented workers filing for additional child tax credits and the dependents listed on their tax returns
https://www.wthr.com/story/17861738/will-lawmakers-act-to-close-tax-loophole-for-illegal-immigrants