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Where is Marla? Hidden Lake Academy Special ED. Teacher
Anonymous:
Are you a tax rat?
The IRS welcomes calls about suspected tax fraud -- so long as your information is legit.
April 1, 2005: 3:54 PM EST
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN/Money senior staff writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) ? If you're like most Americans, you believe everyone should pay their fair share of taxes. So you may get a little miffed by people whom you suspect don't.
You may, in fact, be tempted to rat them out.
Last year, nearly 294,000 people called the IRS hotline for reporting tax fraud (1-800-829-0433) with tips on folks they thought were skirting their tax-paying obligations. But many complainants also have personal reasons for trying to snag someone.
"We encourage people to use that phone line if they know of or suspect fraud," said IRS spokesperson Eric Smith. But, he also noted, "we don't get a real high percentage of good leads from those calls."
The reason: callers often have incomplete information or are transparent in their quest for revenge.
How do you know if you fall into the latter category? "Ask yourself, 'If I didn't have any emotional involvement, would I consider this to be important?'" Smith said.
If you do offer IRS investigators serious leads, it may be willing to pay you for the favor. IRS Publication 733 offers details on the conditions under which the agency pays rewards and how to claim them. And for more information on rewards paid, click here.
The amount of the rewards offered range from 1 percent of the amount the IRS recovers in a case up to -- but not exceeding -- $10 million. :eek:
Most tax issues are not handled in a criminal manner, Smith said. Of the criminal cases undertaken by the IRS, most involve hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. "It's not going to happen with very small amounts," he said.
Good to know if you're choosing between snitching on the guy who pockets restaurant receipts to write off as business expenses and the guy you're pretty sure is involved in money laundering schemes.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/01/pf/taxes/inform/
RobertBruce:
I would guess by this point HLA is out of the "small amounts" category.
Anonymous:
Dennis Jay at Coalition Against Insurance Fraud might be interested in exposing the apparent fraud on his website:
http://insurancefraud.org/
In 2004, health care expenditures were estimated at $2.1 trillion which represents 15.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. By the year 2012, CMS estimates total health care spending to exceed $3.1 trillion. With health care expenditures rising at three times the rate of inflation, it is especially important to coordinate all investigative efforts to combat fraud within the health care system. The FBI is the primary investigative agency in the fight against health care fraud, and has jurisdiction over both the federal and private insurance programs. With more than $1 trillion being spent in the private sector on health care and its related services, the FBI's efforts are crucial to the success of the overall program. The FBI leverages its resources in both the private and public arenas through investigative partnerships with agencies such as the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Office of Personnel Management, Internal Revenue Service and various state and local agencies. On the private side, the FBI is actively involved with national groups, such as the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA), the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), the American Association of Retired Persons and the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, as well as many other professional and grass-roots efforts to expose and investigate fraud within the system.
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/financi ... 005.htm#c1
SHH Anon Classics:
Since I have no idea who the other person posting is, why dont you do your IP search that you are so good at to see that we aren't the same person. I know I am posting from outside the state of Georgia. I have no idea where they are posting from. As far as what the school should be classifed as, I have no idea how that is determined. But from what I have seen, it seems it could be considered both in different circumstances. THat would be something that would need to be taken up by someone other than me to determine that.
Anonymous:
I stand by what I said, there has only been one real attempted suicide in the last three years, how do I know, I was there. are there students that intentionaly harm themselves, yes, there were several. but as far as actuall suicide attempts, only one.
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