Sooner or later IRS’s catching up on all the tax crooks especially those people who are cheating the system through tax ID theft.
Such was the case of a Georgia woman who was just indicted for stealing the identities to obtain tax refunds.
Is almost hard to believe people try to get away with the stealing of information. Sooner or later the system will catch them IRS has now put many systems in place to track down people who have prayed on the refunds of other people.
This scheme is generally work like this. One person secures the names and Social Security numbers of different individuals another person will prepare the tax returns and yet a third person will go ahead and actually cash the checks. usually in these cases you see a multitude of indictments as well as seeing organize rings now involved in the tax fraud.
Please read below the latest of a Georgia woman caught stealing the identity, and the refunds of several innocent victims.
Georgia Woman Indicted for Stealing Identities to Obtain Tax Refunds
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned a superseding indictment charging Deatrice Smith Williams and Quentin Collick for their roles in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck Jr. and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 13 count indictment charges Williams and Collick with conspiracy to file false claims, theft of public funds, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
On Aug. 9, 2012, Quentin Collick was indicted for his role in the conspiracy. In November 2012, pursuant to a criminal complaint, Williams was arrested for her role in the conspiracy. The superseding indictment was unsealed today.
According to court documents, Williams worked for a debt collection company in Georgia. As part of her employment, Williams had access to names and social security numbers. She provided several names and Social Security numbers to her son-in-law, Quentin Collick. Collick, and his co-conspirators used those names to file false tax returns from the Middle District of Alabama. Collick and his co-conspirators, in turn, cashed several fraudulent federal refund checks.
An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been committed, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
If convicted, Collick and Williams each face maximum potential sentences of 10 years in prison for the conspiracy count, up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count, and a mandatory 2-year sentence for the aggravated identity theft counts. Collick also faces up to 10 years in prison for each theft of public funds count.
They are also subject to fines and mandatory restitution if convicted.
If you find yourself in the situation of a tax ID theft is helpful not to go into the IRS office, the IRS office can do you absolutely no good. Your best bet is to go ahead and simply fill out IRS form 10439 and send it off and be prepared to wait anywhere from 180 days to one year for your tax refund.