Strengthen legal protections for reporters and their sources in colorado a senator says he was motivated to carry the bill. a distraction to cause pilots to land at a wrong airport. it was revealed a company dispatcher sitting with veteran pilots was also put on paid leave. the ntsb is reviewing the plane s black boxes as it looks for answers. it s every taxpayers nightmare. thieves stealing names and social security numbers to claim your refund. if you wait until the last minute to file your taxes you are at a greater risk of tax i.d. theft. here with the tips you ll need to protect yourself, dana kauffman. good morning. it s interesting. 43% of the identity theft complaints are related to taxes; right? so this is huge. nearly doubled from 2011 to
You know, there s more complex information. do you realize that tax i.d. information is in there, voter information is in there? this is a very important link to a also of private information. although we ve been given assurances it was safe, we were given assurances they could handle the volume. do you believe it s secure now? i don t want to overly find humor in this but while the secretary s speaking saying they hadn t had a shutdown, another network showing a current shutdown that is displayed. they re saying one thing but not demonstrating with the reliability of they re claiming november 30th they ll be ready. we want to make sures this doesn t happen again. the process of delivering expensive i.t., 600 million, shows that government doesn t really get it right, even when they employ good contractors, they seem to find a way not to use best practices. a statement that the department of health and human
More than a million cases of tax i.d. fraud just last year. totaling billions of dollars. they say older residents are more vulnerable and that things are really bad in florida. officials report miami alone has 46 times more the rest of the country. the u.s. attorney for south florida calls it a tsunami of fraud. and the epicenter of a national trend. phil keating with more live from our south florida newsroom. why there? the government with fake returns just happens to be the fraud deyour down here made easier when they will pay it back on prepaid debit cards which are sold pretty much at any drugstore. the two miami cops are the latest fraudsters caught up in this crime accused of accessing government or healthcare data to mine for personal info. it is now the number one fraud in florida and number three fraud nationwide. what it shows you is that greed has no end. anyone who has ability to
What s happened as of now, the tax preparer is no longer need to obtain a tax i.d. number, pass qualifying exams and don t have to complete these yearly education requirements. however, all of the taxpayers can still volunteer to do all of the above. that is who you want to go to. they still are to get that tax i.d. number, but they don t have to meet education requirements. they don t have a pass a competency test. these are nonprofessionals. so we re not talking about cpa s, tax attorneys, registered agents with the irs. these are nonprofessionals. the mom and pop operations, the local guys, by the way, they usually do a pretty good job. usually at a much fairer price than a cpa firm or one of these national firms. we don t want to paint everybody with the same brush. you just want to make sure they re qualified. they have a history of doing this. good record with the better business bureau. doesn t hurt if they get recommended by an attorney or financial advisor. got to go with yo
A story from wednesday on the federal grant to defunked affiliate acorn. james rosen has details. at a time when the lawmakers and the white house is slashing trillions in federal spending fox news confirmed department of housing development or h.u.d. this year gave $80,000 a group called affordable housing centers of america. alcoa. the money was supposed to be used to help minoritities learn about the housing option but it used to be called acorn housing and alcoa uses the same tax i.d. number, address and personnel of acorn housing. it was in october of 2009 president obama signed in law barring acorn and any acorn affiliate receiving federal funds. the fack of the matter is the intent of congress was clear in 2009. we meant to defund acorn. that s after saboteur videotaped acorn on how to