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Jan 03 2012
Inmates register as tax preparers
Federal Times - by Kevin McCoy
Hundreds of prison inmates have found new careers behind bars — by registering with the IRS as income tax preparers.
A total of 331 inmates were serving prison terms when they got active or provisional tax preparer tax identification numbers from the IRS, according to an audit issued Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Forty-three of those applicants were serving life sentences at the time. Yet none of the lifers disclosed their felony convictions on the IRS application, the audit found.
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