And her ex-husband too

It was so easy for a woman to trick her ex and the tax office

How could a Carinthian woman apply for someone else's tax refunds for years and collect them on her own account?(Bild: stock.adobe.com - Stockfotos-MG)

The judge at the regional court in Klagenfurt speaks of a "crude forgery" - yet the tax office fell for it and for years transferred money to the wrong person that was actually due to someone else. And so a mother of four ended up in the dock as a fraudster.

A click here, a click there, a forged signature and the IBAN number from her own account: That's all it takes to make an online employee tax assessment at the tax office in someone else's name and collect tax refunds for them. If you don't believe it, a trial at Klagenfurt Provincial Court has revealed how this can happen.