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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Income-Tax Refunds Withheld without Notice


“Criminal investigators at the Internal Revenue Service froze more than 120,000 taxpayers' refunds last year on suspicion of fraud without notifying the taxpayers or giving them a chance to respond, the national taxpayer advocate said in a report released yesterday.” (Washington Post, Wednesday)

It's a refund from ourselves, isn't it?

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