Does anyone have corroboration? I mean, Cringely has a history of overstating his claims, and this story is very thinly sourced. The only evidence that Cringely

Does anyone have corroboration? I mean, Cringely has a history of overstating his claims, and this story is very thinly sourced. The only evidence that Cringely presents is the one Wall Street Journal article that is, by his own admission, inadequate to support his claims. Further, he presents the existence of Form 14039 as further evidence of massive tax fraud without any indication that correlation in this case is due to causation. I mean, on the basis of this article alone, I have no reason to conclude that the IRS introduced this form for the purposes of addressing or covering up this fraud. In fact, a much more likely scenario is that identity theft is now so common, the IRS has formalized its procedures for dealing with it by creating a new tax form. Finally, I don't see any of the "draconian policy changes" that he's referring to on the horizon. This entire article just strikes me as somehow... wrong. There are just too many conclusions being drawn off one piece of very weak evidence for me to give it any credence.