IRS gives Home buyer Tax Credit to aliens and minors

OK, we knew it would happen, right? We all love the tax credit – if only the government didn’t have to be the one administering it. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) believes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may have paid out millions of dollars in first-time home-buyer tax credits to individuals not eligible to receive the $8,000 credit. Nearly $4 million of incorrectly paid credits were due to both alleged fraud and filing errors on claims by 580 taxpayers less than 18 years old. The youngest of these was 4 years old, TIGTA head J. Russell George said in prepared testimony to the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee. TIGTA also found 3,200 taxpayers with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) claiming the credits. ITINs are used to track income tax for resident aliens, in lieu of a social security number, and it’s possible that as much as $20.8 million in tax credits was paid to resident aliens ineligible for the cred it. As of August 22, 2009, more than 1.4 million taxpayers claimed the tax credit for homes purchased in 2008 and 2009, representing total foregone tax revenue of about $10 billion, according to estimates presented by Government Accountability Office (GAO) director of strategic issues James White.

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