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...companies for the cost of treating Medicare patients with smoking-related illnesses, a tab that the state's Attorney General estimates at about $500 million a year. This could spell trouble for similar broad cases pending in Florida, Mississippi and Minnesota. While throwing out parts of the suit alleging fraud and other issues, Judge Irene Berger ruled that the suit could proceed on the basis ofconsumer protection laws...
...White House officials think tax reformers are misreading the public: what really angers honest taxpayers is the prevalence of cheaters. "We do make mistakes from time to time," says IRS commissioner Margaret Richardson. But she adds, "I think people are more concerned about fraud in the system, and they need an advocate so that everyone pays their fair share." Martin Freeman, a tax preparer in Chicago Heights, Illinois, reports that most of his clients support the IRS crackdown. "They know the new rules are cutting down on fraud," he says. The IRS points out that 98% of all tax returns...
Also caught in the cross fire of the IRS war against fraud are women who when they married neglected to change their name with the Social Security Administration. If the names on a tax return don't exactly match those from SSA, the IRS will reject the returns. That's how Lisa Broeker, 32, a nurse's aide from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, learned that the SSA still had her listed as Lisa Lopez, even though she had paid taxes under her married name for nine years. She was forced to stand in line at the local Social Security office...
...year, is eligible for an earned-income credit of as much as $2,528. The credit operates as a sort of "negative tax," available to workers too poor to owe income tax and is intended to make work more attractive than welfare. The credit, however, has been susceptible to fraud. In order to catch the cheats, the irs has also punished honest taxpayers. Low-income workers for whom the earned-income refund is the biggest chunk of cash they see all year have been waiting eight to 12 weeks or longer. Emma Mejia, 48, a single mother...
...Reed Hundt, declaring his "personal anguish" at the whole affair. But he backed his tears with bullets. That same day his Washington attorney, William Reyner Jr., also wrote to Hundt, at one point accusing NBC parent General Electric of having engaged "in a pattern of illegal activity, including criminal fraud, antitrust and anticompetitive conduct." He listed a series of examples, including GE's 1992 guilty plea on four counts of fraud associated with a sale of aircraft engines to Israel. These sins, Reyner continued, called into question "NBC's basic qualifications to continue as a licensee of broadcast stations...