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The Earned Income Tax Credit Examination Compliance Strategy Can Be Improved

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number
2021-30-051
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
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Recommendations

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should evaluate the current programming for the prerefund selection process to ensure that cases identified by both Questionable Refund Program and Dependent Database (DDb) selection pools are prioritized for DDb prerefund selection.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should evaluate and revise the scoring process to ensure that the cases with the highest risk are scored as such. This process should include adding weight to cases with higher Questionable Refund Program and Dependent Database scores and Duplicate Taxpayer Identification Number repeaters.