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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The OSSE online tip form for reporting non-residency explicitly states that OSSE does not investigate boundary fraud. If that’s not clear enough, I’m not sure there’s any convincing the posters on this thread.

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[i] OSSE does not investigate District of Columbia Public School boundary issues, only issues of non-residency.[i]
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I feel like people so dead set on minimizing this have a real lack of understanding of how law enforcement works. If you report a false address and OSSE (or another agency) finds out, they *do not know* you live in the district. Because you have reported a false address, not your actual address. So this becomes a residency investigation. God speed to you if you believe that you can then continue to report your false address to investigators, or that there will be zero repercussions when it is revealed you made a false attestation. No you will not be prosecuted under the residency fraud statute, but you are absolutely smoking something if you don’t understand that law enforcement gets very pissed if you lie. [/quote]

More to the point, you have a real lack of real understanding how DCPS enrollment works. Own an IB property where you file DC income tax and enroll your kid in your by-right DCPS schools without penalty. That's the system de facto. Nobody much is getting "very pissed" but you and the like-minded on DCUM.[/quote]

You realize that reporting a false address on your taxes is also illegal?[/quote]

I'm honestly trying to understand how this could be a problem. Say you own and/or rent two properties in the District. You file taxes, claim the Homestead Deduction, etc. with one address, and use the second address to enroll in school. If you use your paystub to verify your address with the school, which is the simplest method without using the OTR system (which is only available for re-enrollment), you change your paystub to the second address for a month or two, submit the paystub, then change it back to the first address. You then file your DC taxes under the first address, claim your Homestead Deduction, and OTR has no idea (or would even care?) you changed your address for a month. You're paying DC taxes either way, and the Homestead Deduction is prorated based on whether you apply for it in the first or second half of the year, not based on the exact month. You don't have to file taxes under the second address to enroll as an IB family, you only need a paystub that shows DC tax withholding and that IB address. For all anyone knows, your house was unlivable for that month and you moved into a temporary rental/your second house. Which IS a legitimate way to legally circumvent the boundary rules, and technically by the book as long as you actually lived in the second house when you enrolled in the school.

I think this happens all of the time, and neither OSSE nor OTR give a hoot as long as you still pay your DC taxes and don't actually live in Maryland. What exactly is the legal violation that law enforcement is going to prosecute?[/quote]

don’t ask me, ask the US Attorney when they ask why you falsified your address. tax authorities very much care that you not lie on the forms.

that’s what’s so annoying about you people - you believe you’re above the law just because “who could possibly care about my eensy weensy fraud!”[/quote]

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