Fairfax Media has also obtained new departmental data that suggests weaknesses in the skilled worker visa programs are increasingly being exploited, with thousands of foreign cooks and accountants being given visas despite an excess of local candidates.
''The investigation network is now in a far worse condition than at any time in its history.''Major organisers of fraud on Australia's immigration and citizenship programs realistically need have little fear of detection, arrest and prosecution.'' When the dam bursts
With improved tactics and technology, the US IRS stopped six million suspicious returns last year and prevented $18 billion in fraudulent refunds. In addition, he said the IRS has improved its handling of refund claims by victims of fraud, reducing the time it takes to resolve a problem from one year to four months.
But Koskinen lamented that the IRS has lost $850 million in funds and nearly 10,000 employees over the past four years as a result of budget cuts by Congress. And those reductions have hobbled the agency’s ability to attack ID theft and tax fraud more aggressively.
“It’s important for people to understand, as I’ve tried to get the Congress to understand you get what you pay for ...
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