and I'm seeing that these "professionals" are using Household Employee wages to bump people up into the sweet spot for EIC.

They claim that these household employees can work for multiple people, each paying them less than $2200/year (or whatever the cutoff is for needing to issue a W2) up to the point of max EIC and its all legal.

They keep a spread sheet of their friends or relatives that supposedly paid them for baby sitting or house cleaning, with each of the people paying them less than the income that requires a W2.

I saw one of them share a screen shot of a 1040 with 11535 in HSH on the wages line, that added to their $5500 W2 and 2 kids, landed them over $7000 in ACTC and EIC.

Theres a certain Service Bureau (theres probably more than one) that trains their tax preparers to use this method to get large refunds..

How is this getting past IRS without scrutiny?