We’ve known for a long time that fraudsters and criminals have been helping themselves to our money by filing bogus claims for tax deductions and credits with the IRS. Now, it seems that an entire industry has sprung up to help people claim money they’re not entitled to. And the IRS has admitted defeat.

The week, the FAIRtax Guys look at an article from accountingtoday.com detailing the problem. It’s just one more example of how the IRS is broken beyond repair and why we need to put the IRS out of business by replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax.