{"id":13228,"date":"2015-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-issued-5-6-billion-in-bogus-education-tax-credits\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:59:19","slug":"irs-issued-5-6-billion-in-bogus-education-tax-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-issued-5-6-billion-in-bogus-education-tax-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Issued $5.6 Billion In Bogus Education Tax Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

www.kwtx.com \u2014 The Internal Revenue Service issued $5.6 billion in potentially bogus education tax credits<\/a> in a single year, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general.<\/p>\n

The report says the credits were issued to more than 3.6 million taxpayers in 2012.<\/p>\n

Most of the credits went to students even though the IRS never received a tuition statement from the school.<\/p>\n

Some students attended schools that weren’t eligible for federal funding while others didn’t take enough classes to qualify for the tax break.<\/p>\n

Read more about IRS Issued $5.6 Billion In Bogus Education Tax Credits<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out more Tax News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know. www.kwtx.com \u2014 The Internal Revenue Service issued $5.6 billion in potentially bogus education tax credits in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28568,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/28568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}