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BEATS MAKING LICENSE PLATES
January 09, 2006
Professor Maule notes a surprising way to keep inmates occupied.
A prisoner with access to the Internet or a prison library prints out or makes copies of IRS forms. The prisoner, or others in the scheme, prepare fraudulent documents showing fictitious withheld taxes on fictitious income. Using these forms, the prisoners then file tax returns seeking refunds of the supposedly overpaid taxes.
It is apparently common, and taxpayer confidentiality rules make it hard to prevent. Somehow it doesn't seem like the right way to prepare them for a post-prison livelihood.
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Plus, they probably want to avoid running into the numerous "tax-protest" folks down the cellblock, especially in the showers.
;-)
Posted by: hgstern | January 9, 2006 10:54 AM