Today’s Roundup of Taxpayer News
NTUand other Taxpayer Groups Force Co-sponsors to Back Out of Natural Gas bill
Four U.S.House representatives have withdrawn as co-sponsors to a bill offering $5billion in tax credits for natural gas-fueled vehicles, due to increasingpressure from taxpayer groups such as NTU.
NTU’sAndrew Moylan says DOE Loan Guarantees Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
NTU’sAndrew Moylan points out that DOE loan guarantees are taxpayer handouts toprivate entities, and have little oversight, accountability, and are hard totrack.
TaxpayerRefund Theft on the Rise
Identitytheft using taxpayer ID’s has increased about five-fold between 2008 and 2010.In most cases, the thefts leave the victimized taxpayers waiting for a refundfrom the IRS.