IRS cracks down on fraud as tax return season begins

WASHINGTON — The federal government has swooped down on 105 people in 23 states in the past week as part of a nationwide crackdown on identity theft and tax refund fraud that was timed to warn cheats to beware this

If you filed your tax return early this year, you'll have to wait a week longer for your refund.

Here are 10 things the IRS wants parents to consider when filing their taxes this year. Dependents In most cases, a child can be claimed as a dependent in the year they were born. For more information see IRS Publication 501, Exemptions,

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COM STAFF The home of purported member of the Washington sovereign citizen movement Timothy Garrison, which was raided by the IRS and other law enforcement in June 2011. A Mount Vernon accountant with ties to a radical anti-government group in