Sophisticated criminals used an online service run by the IRS to access personal tax information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, part of an elaborate scheme to steal identities and claim fraudulent tax refunds, the IRS said Tuesday.

The thieves accessed a system called "Get Transcript," where taxpayers can get tax returns and other filings from previous years. In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address, the IRS said.

"We're confident that these are not amateurs," said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. "These actually are organized crime syndicates that not only we but everybody in the financial industry are dealing with."

Koskinen wouldn't say whether investigators believe the criminals are based overseas — or where they obtained enough personal information about the taxpayers to access their returns. The IRS has launched a criminal investigation. The agency's inspector general is also investigating.

He's worse than Karen Garza, all he does is cry for money. At least all Garza does is waste it.

Dumb ass Republicans cut funding to the people that collect funding and our personal information.

you cant get dumber than that.

Got a check from the IRS for $1.83

I have one year to spend it

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Dumb ass Republicans cut funding to the people
> that collect funding and our personal information.
>
>
> you cant get dumber than that.


Words from truly brain washed smug lounging. Mind numbing

Only an ultra libtard like Gerr bear would defend the IRS.

Lib-tardz!

LoLz!
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With dumbfucks like eesh out there, it's not hard to get someone's SSN and all their personal info.

Gerry, you're such a dumbass. Both parties have been slashing IRS funding, even when the House and Senate were run by Democrats. Why? Because 90% of returns are done electronically.

Maybe they should have spent a bit more effort on security and a little less on persecuting groups critical of the President. Just sayin'

Lois L. Wrote:
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> Maybe they should have spent a bit more effort on
> security and a little less on persecuting groups
> critical of the President. Just sayin'

+100

Lois L. Wrote:
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> Maybe they should have spent a bit more effort on
> security and a little less on persecuting groups
> critical of the President. Just sayin'

- 1,000,000

All the bogus Congressional investigative hearings I listened to, and there were plenty, showed the IRS was legally targeting tea bagging political action groups with questionable tax exempt status. It was just more bad Republican political theater wasting our tax dollars - again. Just like Benghazi, Fast-n-Furious, etc. The GOP hasn't done a fucking thing for America in decades. Not a single fucking thing.

OP should go fuck his retarded self in the eye with a hot poker.

We need the IRS to collect taxes.

And we need higher taxes to have a better functioning Government (local, state, and Federal), Military, Police, First Responders, FEMA, Policemen, Fireman, Public Transportation, High Speed Rail, Infrastructure, Public Schools, Teachers, Affordable Health Care, Research and Development, a Social Safety Net, Social Security, Medicare, MediCaid, and to pay for the 2 unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gerryfag has proven time and time again that he is a brain dead libturd zombie. Ignore him.

Wake the Phuck Up! Wrote:
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> And we need higher taxes to have a better
> functioning Government (local, state, and
> Federal), Military, Police, First Responders,
> FEMA, Policemen, Fireman, Public Transportation,
> High Speed Rail, Infrastructure, Public Schools,
> Teachers, Affordable Health Care, Research and
> Development, a Social Safety Net, Social Security,
> Medicare, MediCaid, and to pay for the 2 unfunded
> wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Give the government more money and all they'll do is waste it. But I would expect a kool-aid drinking faggot like you to not learn from history.

jefurffgy Wrote:
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> Give the government more money and all they'll do
> is waste it. But I would expect a kool-aid
> drinking faggot like you to not learn from
> history.

You sound like Grover Norquist waterboarded you with Anti-Tax Kook-Aid and all you did was swallow.

55 votes to delay, repeal Obamacare. Multiple lawsuits against ObamaCare. 9 Benghazi investigations. Multiple IRS and Fast-n-Furious investigations. All bogus political witch hunts manufactured by Republicans and paid for by tax payers. Total Return on Investment - Zero!

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been paid for with requisite increases in tax revenues - thus increasing our deficits and debt.

You're no fiscal conservative if you can't do basic linear math - you're just a fucking moron.

Linear math not necessary:

Social Security has a trust fund, and that trust fund is supposed to have $2.6 trillion in it, according to the Social Security trustees.

The problem is that the federal government has borrowed all of that trust fund money and spent it. And the only way the trust fund can get some cash to pay Social Security benefits is if the federal government draws it from general revenues or borrows the money—which, of course, it can’t do because of the debt ceiling.

The cost of paying full benefits in 2010 was $49 billion more than Social Security tax revenue for the year. So the government had to borrow $49 billion (probably from China) in order to pay full benefits.

The harsh fact is that Social Security does not have any cash reserves. That is why President Obama said that he couldn’t guarantee that Social Security checks would go out on time without a budget agreement, because “There might not be enough money in the coffers to cover them.” The government owes Social Security $2.7 trillion, but the government is both unable and unwilling to repay the stolen money.

Wake the Phuck Up! Wrote:
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> Lois L. Wrote:
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> -----
> > Maybe they should have spent a bit more effort
> on
> > security and a little less on persecuting
> groups
> > critical of the President. Just sayin'
>
> - 1,000,000
>
> All the bogus Congressional investigative hearings
> I listened to, and there were plenty, showed the
> IRS was legally targeting tea bagging political
> action groups with questionable tax exempt status.
> It was just more bad Republican political theater
> wasting our tax dollars - again. Just like
> Benghazi, Fast-n-Furious, etc. The GOP hasn't done
> a fucking thing for America in decades. Not a
> single fucking thing.
>
> OP should go fuck his retarded self in the eye
> with a hot poker.
>
> We need the IRS to collect taxes.
>
> And we need higher taxes to have a better
> functioning Government (local, state, and
> Federal), Military, Police, First Responders,
> FEMA, Policemen, Fireman, Public Transportation,
> High Speed Rail, Infrastructure, Public Schools,
> Teachers, Affordable Health Care, Research and
> Development, a Social Safety Net, Social Security,
> Medicare, MediCaid, and to pay for the 2 unfunded
> wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Sweden is that way fag. Now get the fuck out.