Feds find dubious home tax credit claims from Texas
By STEVE McGONIGLE / The Dallas Morning News
Federal inspectors scouring tax returns that contain a credit for first-time homebuyers have found something curious about claims from Texas.
Nearly 1,000 were filed by people employing a special taxpayer identification number primarily used by illegal immigrants, who are not entitled to the credit.
The Texas filings represented nearly one-third of the 3,200 suspicious homebuyer credit claims submitted by noncitizens around the country. The value of the credits from all the noncitizen claims was $20.8 million, a U.S. Treasury Department inspector general said.
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