• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Politics / Govt / Grassley upset over IRS payment for scam

Grassley upset over IRS payment for scam

April 16, 2002 By admin

On this day after federal tax deadline day, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is calling on the I-R-S to account for its employees giving some blacks a non-existent tax credit for slave reparations. Grassley says it’s a scam being perpetrated by con artists who are selling bogus tax information.The scam goes that not every freed slave got 40 acres of land and a mule after the Civil War ended, and thus, some descendants are due reparations of 42-thousand dollars. This is false. Still, the I-R-S reportedly erroneously paid out more 30-million dollars in 2000 and 2001 for the non-existent credit.Grassley calls that “stupid.” One I-R-S employee is said to be under investigation for allegedly helping to approve tax returns claiming the credit, while at least 12 current and former I-R-S employees are said to have applied to receive the credit. Grassley doesn’t know if anyone in Iowa got money from Uncle Sam on this scam, but he says it’s against the law.Grassley is the ranking member of the Committee on Finance, which has been focusing on the tens of billions of dollars lost to tax scams.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Politics / Govt Tagged With: Chuck Grassley, Taxes

Featured Stories

DOT plow crews struggling against blizzard conditions

Iowa delegation breaks along party lines on Trump impeachment vote

Two northeast Iowa men admit to illegally harvesting ginseng

Do you have to pay tax on your stimulus check?

All six in Iowa’s congressional delegation confirm Electoral College results

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa State-Kansas postponed

Iowa-Michigan State postponed

Fire damage to Riverfront Stadium electrical system will cost Waterloo thousands

Iowa State at Kansas State postponed

Iowa State’s Foster to miss remainder of the season

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC