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Heres a local story you all may or may not find interesting.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/06/arrest_made_in_huge_oregon_tax.html

Discuss.


First, My state sucks, and is full of incompitent idiots and policies for starters.

Second, this woman is an idiot. Ok thinking on the scam part, but if she had done some ID theft first, then she would probably have gotten away with it. She has 2.1 mil on a debit card, and buys a $2000 vehicle and $800 worth of tires to put on said vehicle?!?!?!!!! I am sure the 1999 Dodge Caravan is lovely, but really?? Then she loses the card, WOW, and reports it missing to get a replacement, thus bringing attention to herself and leading to her arrest.

Whacky...

If I had 2.1 million on a card I would have bought a fast car and got out of the state, while grabbing as much cash and buying as much portable property as possible.

Is it just me or does she look kind of like a zombie?

Corpsesarefun wrote:Is it just me or does she look kind of like a zombie?

Corpses, everybody's a zombie to you.

Anyway, this sounds like idiocy on both parts, the perpetrator and the DoR.

Corpsesarefun wrote:Is it just me or does she look kind of like a zombie?

ITS THE ZOMBIE VIRUS! D:

Also, someone please tell me why idiots like this exist?

Just amazing. How there isn't an automated audit check for any refund over a few thousand dollars is simply incredible.

Then when the article goes on to say that income tax returns are not much more than 80%. That there'd be a modern nation with returns less than 95% is amazing. I mean fething hell people, governance is a serious thing. All the political rhetoric just has to stop and this kind of thing needs to be fixed.

sebster wrote:Just amazing. How there isn't an automated audit check for any refund over a few thousand dollars is simply incredible.

Freedom, and something.

sebster wrote:
I mean fething hell people, governance is a serious thing.

No, its something Joe the Plumber can have an opinion on.

dogma wrote:No, its something Joe the Plumber can have an opinion on.

Fair point. I guess I should have said governance is something that ought to be serious

So further information has come out about what happened. The woman submits this "tax refund", the automated system sees irregularities and it is flagged for review. Then a real live woman who works at the tax office, looks it over, and gives it the ok.

I have no word on the continued employment status of the woman at the tax department, but the state has issued a statement of something like "obviously our system isnt perfect and needs some work, we will do a better job."

Sad thing is, there's still people who get away with far more than this.

Shadowseer_Kim wrote:So further information has come out about what happened. The woman submits this "tax refund", the automated system sees irregularities and it is flagged for review. Then a real live woman who works at the tax office, looks it over, and gives it the ok.

I have no word on the continued employment status of the woman at the tax department, but the state has issued a statement of something like "obviously our system isnt perfect and needs some work, we will do a better job."

Wow. So there was an automated check, but that was over-ridden by the unique stupidity of one individual. Well, I guess no system can ever be completely safe from a deeply incompetent employee.