By Allison Linn The Internal Revenue Service is grappling with a?surge in identity theft-based tax fraud as crooks take advantage of web-based resources including electronic filing. Identity theft cases, in which criminals obtain living or deceased people?s names and Social Security numbers to defraud the government, ranked No. 1 on an annual ?Dirty Dozen? list of tax scams the agency released Thursday. The IRS called ID theft one of the most complex threats it handles. The IRS estimates 404,000 people [...]
Steve Schlegel, owner of Schlegel Bicycles, answers a question while working on a bicycle in the store’s pro shop, in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Schlegel said he personally would favor paying less taxes, but wondered how state services would suffer if a significant portion of state revenue were taken away. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Steve Schlegel, owner of Schlegel Bicycles, answers a question while working on a bicycle in the store’s pro shop, in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 26, [...]