re: Wife possible victim of identity theft

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How is the return even accepted without supporting evidence?

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if I remember right, when you file electronically, you aren't required to provide any supporting doccuments...basically, you fill in all of the required info and away it goes...the important stuff like your W-2 is sent from your employer to the government, so they can compare if they want to do so...

ETA: and if a fraudster works it out right, he can get child care credits and actually make a hell of a lot of money doing this...