As noted yesterday, the N.C. Department of Revenue has declined to give a definite answer on whether the verification of large families is a new policy under Secretary Lay’s administration. A short time ago, I received this response from a Revenue Department spokeswoman regarding that question:
As you likely know, all deductions claimed on an individual income tax return are subject to verification by the Department. The number of dependents and filing status are amoung [sic] those items. This is long standing agency policy. What has changed is our verification process. This year, in order to increase organizational effeciency [sic] and effectiveness we are handling more of the verification process up front. This reduces our cost of collection and improves our ability to more effeciently [sic] carry out our mission of collecting the revenues fairly due the State.
