<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
I know a common tax fraud scheme use to be claiming you had more children than you actually have. This seems near impossible to do now but I'm still wondering if it can be done in this day in age?
<|assistant|>
Tax fraud schemes are constantly changing in order to take advantage of new technologies and loopholes. There have been reports of a new type of tax fraud which takes advantage of software used to fill out income tax forms. Thieves are acquiring legitimate tax data through computer hacking and use the information to file fraudulent income tax returns which claim much larger refunds than the legitimate filers had claimed. In some cases, this fraud can result in the true filers' claims not being processed in time, leading to their refunds being denied. While it is still possible for an individual to commit tax fraud by making false claims such as claiming additional dependants, technology and new methods of fraud make it increasingly hard to get away with.