and trusted turbotax to take care of that information. and the, issue with the irs and the states, they picked up on the fraud. this is a matter of turbotax allowing the cyber criminals to get access to her information. this is not an issue, at least at this point, of the irs allowing the fraudulent returns to go through. gerri: so it take as community here for somebody's identity to be stolen via tax. in fact irs paid identity thieves $5.2 billion in fraudulent refunds in 2013. the thinking as i understand it, richard, you can correct me if i'm not right, fraud artists are essentially hacking into people's passwords on turbotax and lifts information that they can then use to put into the irs a fake tax return. now the interesting thing about your case that christine diaz has not used turbotax four or five years. how can she have been harmed? >> how she was harmed the fraudulent, the cyber criminals, filed her returns through turbotax. so, the issue as to whether they took the password from somewhere else and came through turbotax is some

a form he employee for turbotax claims, the company knew what was happening but for years did nothing to stop it. lisa stark has more. >> reporter: john, lafs year the irs paid out -- last year the irs paid out $5.8 billion in fraudulent tax refund. now online tax preparation software such as turbotax are trying to figure out how crooks take refunds that don't belong to them. all of this comes as turbotax stands accused of making it too easy for these criminals to do business. >> the sheer amount of fraud that we were knowingly letting into the network really bothered me. >> the fraud that he's talking about is online tax scammers, claiming refunds. mcdugal was a security engineer for one of the largest tax filing company intuit, which owns turbotax. this year turbotax has seen a huge increase in fraudulent concerns. >> we were seeing millions of families being affected by this but we couldn't get management to shut the fraud down. >> when they go to file their individual return either their state or the irs rejects it saying a return has already been filed with that social security n

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as we all saw with the turbotax refunds refund fraud and other tax related identity theft are running rampant. how do you make sure you don't fall victim? >> joining me the ceo of h&r block, bill cobb. thanks for coming on the show tonight. i'm so pleased to have you here this week. i think a lot of people's attention is focused on scams, largely because of you. you really drawn the media spotlight to it. what do consumers need to know right now? how can they keep themselves safe, make sure their refund doesn't get stolen? >> gerri, it has become a very big problem here. this has been a year where there has been a number of reports, et cetera. we're working closely as an industry with the irs to get greater protections for consumers. right now it is too easy, especially with do it yourself returns, for people to, for fraudsters to steal a name, date of birth and social security number and file a return. gerri: it is ridiculous. >> we've taken steps -- gerri: go ahead. >> it is ridiculous. we take steps, never allow a state return to be filed until accepted by irs. say what you want ab

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he says, our time in 30 years i did my own with turbotax. piece of cake. very thorough. can you use fsa money on medical expenses if they are still on your health insurance but too old to claim as dependents on your taxes? guest: i do not know. i am guessing -- i do not know. great question. now that obamacare -- the depends the thing into it -- at 24. great question. host: hard to stop kevin mccormally. pittsburgh pennsylvania. good morning. caller: i usually file my taxes with h&r block. the free service is from the federal government. they now require you to -- i usually file my state with the state. they are forcing you to do it with them and they force you to pay. is there a way around that? guest: i would somebody use other than plot, i do not think they all do that. -- other than block. it seems like it is violating the governments requirement. the free filing is only for the fed and most charge for states. i do not see how they can demand you use there's. right now your federal return and do your state return by hand. host: a matter of shopping around. connecticu

a comment about the company before make a few comments -- most companies think of it as the turbotax company, so the diy world. you might find it interesting to know we also sell tax software to more than 100,000 tax companies, professionals, very small companies but we also think about ourselves and are beginning to articulate it more as a full service company. some of the comments you will hear me make are intended -- still getting into that frame intended to think about the industry as a whole. a couple comments, one of the challenge at the rs -- at the irs speared the technology enablement is where i want to focus. i am hardened to hear some of the things about what is coming to the irs. i was also director of electronic tax administration. i think the commissioner may have used part of my speech from 10 years ago when we made some of this very same predictions. that is not a criticism. it is one of the things i always found challenging at the irs. there were things that were the program of the future and they always would be. [laughter] it is my hope that we have crossed that ru

a comment about the company before i make a few comments -- most companies think of it as the turbotaxompany, so the diy world. you might find it interesting to know we also sell tax software to more than 100,000 tax companies, professionals, very small companies, but we also think about ourselves and are beginning to articulate it more as a full service company. some of the comments you will hear me make are intended -- i'm still getting into that frame, intended to think about the industry as a whole. i will make a couple comments, one of the challenge at the irs. the technology enablement is where i want to focus. i am hardened to hear some of the things rosemary was talking about what is coming to the irs. i was also director of electronic tax administration. i think the commissioner may have used part of my speech from 10 years ago when we made some of the very same predictions. that is not a criticism. it is one of the things i always found challenging at the irs. there were things that were the program of the future and they always would be. [laughter] it is my hope that we have

most folks think of intuit as the turbotax company so the diy world.you might find it interesting to know that we also sell tax software to more than 100,000 tax companies, professionals -- small, we call them solopreneurs, but we also think about ourselves and are beginning to articulate it more as a full-service company. so some of the comments you'll hear me make are intended to think about the industry as a whole. i'm going to make just a couple comments. one is about the challenge to the irs. you've heard about it today but just a brief comment about that. the technology enablement is where i want to focus. i'm heartened to hear some of the things rosemary was talking about about what's coming to the irs. one of my other jobs was the direct canner of electronic tax administration, and, in fact, i think the commissioner may have used or rosemary may have used part of my speech from ten years ago when we made some of those very same predictions and comments. that is not a criticism one of the things i always found challenging at the irs. things that

he says, our time in 30 years i did my own with turbotax. piece of cake. very thorough.an you use fsa money on medical expenses if they are still on your health insurance but too old to claim as dependents on your taxes? guest: i do not know. i am guessing -- i do not know. great question. now that obamacare -- the depends the thing into it -- at 24. great question. host: hard to stop kevin mccormally. pittsburgh pennsylvania. good morning. caller: i usually file my taxes with h&r block. the free service is from the federal government. they now require you to -- i usually file my state with the state. they are forcing you to do it with them and they force you to pay. is there a way around that? guest: i would somebody use other than plot, i do not think they all do that. -- other than block. it seems like it is violating the governments requirement. the free filing is only for the fed and most charge for states. i do not see how they can demand you use there's. right now your federal return and do your state return by hand. host: a matter of shopping around. connecticut,

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.♪ ♪intuit turbotax.♪ ♪it's amazing what you're pable of.♪ >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist bill henleywill combine to warm things up nicely today. we'll be in the 60s this afternoon. and a milder day tomorrow. 70 after morning low of 56. but we will see occasional showers possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. and a few showers still around saturday morning. then gusty winds saturday afternoon. a cold easter egg hunt on sunday. but sunny skies and 60 degrees. turning warmer next week. have a great day. . >>> and that's your latest weather. >> thank you, al. that video we showed you on wednesday of a new york police officer berating an uber driver. willie has been following this story for us. it sounds like the troubles may be just beginning for that officer. >> yes, savannah new york's police commissioner is calling the actions of that officer unacceptable. he is now losing his position in one of the department's most elite units. >> do you understand me? i don't know what [ bleep ] planet you think you are on right now. >> reporter: a new york detective assigned to the joint terroris

.♪ ♪intuit turbotax.♪ ♪it's amazing what you're capable of.♪ >>> 7:17 good thursday morning to you.rancisco, this is from our castro cam, temps are chilly out there this morning, we're at 45 degrees in livermore, 43 in concord, and 39 degrees in san martin. grab a jacket. we're going to see a nice finish to today, warm temperatures later on. in fact about five to eight degrees warmer than where we ended up yesterday. 70s on the way for the peninsula and the east bay, more of the same for tomorrow then cooler with rain on the way this weekend, more on that in just moments. weather. >> thank you, al. new fallout tied to the video we showed you on wednesday of a new york city police officer berating an uber driver. willie has been following this story for us. it sounds like the troubles may be just beginning for that officer. >> yes, savannah, new york's police commissioner is calling the actions of that officer unacceptable. he is now losing his position in one of the department's most elite units. >> do you understand me? i don't know what [ bleep ] planet you think you are on right