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Tax credits for homebuyers: the downside of stimulus

Tax credits for homebuyers have IRS scrambling to correct mistakes and contain fraud, according to a new report.
Homebuyer tax credits illegally claimed by prison inmates?

Homebuyer tax credits, according to a government investigator, were illegally claimed by hundreds of US prison inmates.
Government employees feel the danger of anti-government anger

Anti-government infused threats against the IRS and gun violations on federal property are going up. Many government employees see the over-heated political debate these days as a personal danger.
Joe Stack IRS attack: All-American rage?

Fury over taxation and the IRS is more common – and honorable – in the US than elsewhere. That may help explain why some empathize with Joe Stack.
IRS: a frequent target of antigovernment violence

Thursday's attack, in which Joseph Stack flew his plane into IRS offices in Austin, Texas, is just the latest in a string of attacks against the Internal Revenue Service. There are an average of 918 threats against employees a year, says a government agency.
Former terrorist: Austin attack reflects growing US turmoil

Joe Stack's apparent suicide flight in Austin, Texas, Thursday, which killed at least one person and caused two others to be hospitalized, is indicative of what some are concerned is building antigovernment sentiment, says a former domestic terrorist.