Talking to IRS about how ICs are told to work
Posted By: Do you think the IRS really cares on 2009-07-23
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I wanted to let you know about what happened when I tried to talk to the IRS a few years ago about a fraud that I knew was happening, had all the information. This pertained to a woman scamming section 8, food stamps, welfare money (living with a guy with a city job yet claiming no money). Her children came to live with me for 2 years. I took total care, housing, food, etc. with no money from her. I claimed the kids on my income tax for those 2 years and come to find out her boyfriend also claimed the children on his taxes (remember when at home they were on all kinds of welfare and he probably was claiming them then- this is against the law and called double dipping). I got information from a tax preparer at my home, not mine, wanting to know if filing and called the place, found out he had claimed them in the past and then I contacted IRS. Oh, I also got notice from IRS that I was one of 2 filers who had claimed the kids! I had all the social security numbers, names, birthdates, all that I needed. This scamming on their end went on for several years and do you think anyone interested or would talk with me? Nah, nothing. No one contacted me or their parent. When I see the rah-rah about turning these companies in I am reminded of what I tried to do with just wasting my time in the long run.
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Talking about the ones who say you cannot work for another national MT service. nm
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If you no longer work there, you don't know what you are talking about. My stub came sm
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That is talking about outsourcing not off-shoring work. NM
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That'd me the day someone told me I HAD to work OT.
MDI-MD told me it would work now. nm
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I don't know if this helps or not. Just letting you know what I was told. Good luck!
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There is no reason for me to lie about this.
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You MUST be talking about OSI
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see... this is what I'm talking about
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Are you talking about the one that used the
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Okay, we are obviously talking about
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What are you talking about?
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That's exactly what I'm talking about
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