IRS paid $30 million for bogus tax credit

Sunday, April 14, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service mistakenly paid out more than $30 million to tax filers seeking nonexistent slavery tax credits in 2000 and 2001, according to a Treasury Department investigation.

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