Earned $17,493 - Anyone want to guess what her tax refund amount was?

[Roscoe]

I helped my son do his taxes a few weeks ago.... He made $18k and got back $1500.... which is less than he paid in.

But holy shit, I bet she paid less than $1k in taxes alone

[JimD]

How many kids does she have?

Says 6 dependents, but some little sisters.. still fn bullshit.

[Sean88gt]

Earned Income Credit.

Yep. And there is a sweet-spot between $15k-24k when it pays to be a pile of shit. I had employees that would turn down paid vacation/use non-paid sick days/clock out and work because higher pay would thrust them out of their payday.

[quikag]

Earned Income Credit.

[racrguy]

Please tell me that's a joke. There's no fucking way that's a thing.

[Sean88gt]

^No fucking shame, at all.

[Strychnine]

I was unemployed last year. Can I have a million dollars?

Get in line.


And by that I mean come sit over here with the rest of us who want to get paid.

[Sean88gt]

How many kids does she have?

[racrguy]

Why is she getting north of 8k back? WHY AM I SUBSIDIZING SOMEONE ELSE'S EXISTENCE!? Clearly she can work and hold a job, we shouldn't be giving tax credits for having kids. Fuck this. NOW I'm pissed.

[YALE]

I was unemployed last year. Can I have a million dollars?

[Strychnine]

$8304.00


Yeah, identity theft is some bullshit and I know her refund amount (47% of her gross income) is not supposed to be the takeaway here, but WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?


I honestly do not know shit about tax law when it comes to incentives, poverty level write-offs, dependents out the ass, etc. I just have no need to know. Can someone explain that?

Fort Worth mom devastated after someone else claims her tax refund

by JIM DOUGLAS
Posted on February 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM

FORT WORTH –– Danielle Johnson flipped through tax forms earlier this week at her kitchen table, the only furniture in her apartment. Empty mattresses on the bedroom and living room floors indicate the number of kids away in school.

She poured out her story and her tears.

“These are my original tax forms,” she said. “I was getting back 8,304.00”

‘Tax fraud’ sounds too sanitary for what happened to Johnson. She cares for her own children and her little sisters left by her late mother. She has six dependents altogether.

Johnson styles hair to pay the rent.

"I made $17,493 dollars," she said, pointing to a line on her return.

She filed February 8 at a tax preparer's office, hoping to get that $8,300 refund quickly. Then she got the call.

"That Monday she called and said my taxes had already been filed using my social security number,” Johnson said.

She doesn't know who filed for her refund, how they did it or whether they actually received it. She filed Form 14039 for identity theft. According to a government audit, identity thieves hit more than 1.6 million taxpayers in the first half of last year.

Johnson says the IRS told her it would take about six months to straighten out her file. The agency gave her a PIN number and flagged her social security number to prevent further fraud.

The IRS says it opened nearly six times as many ID theft investigations last year as it did in 2011. Johnson's is just one of many News 8 found in recent police reports as tax season gets underway.

Statistics look different sitting across the kitchen table.

“I guess I’ll go to plan B,” she said, shrugging her shoulders.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant/N-Texas-mother-devastated-to-learn-someone-else-claimed-her-tax-refund-247162301.html