audit report conducted by the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration (TIGTA) in June. Back in May, the IRS was busy issuing economic impact payments to millions of Americans as quickly as possible.
So much so that a chunk of those $1,200 checks went to ineligible foreign individuals who at one point worked in the U.S., also known as nonresident aliens in tax form terms.“We conducted our analysis based on reports by news media that individuals who were not U.S.
residents were receiving EIPs (economic impact payments),” according to the report.“Of the 309,601 payments, 27,808 payments totaling $34 million were calculated by the IRS using a tax return with a foreign address,” the report continued.Only U.S.