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Georgia Tax Preparer Guilty of Filing $3 Million in Fraudulent Returns

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27)—A tax preparer who admitted to filing more than $3 million in fraudulent tax returns on behalf of her clients is facing up to 30 years in prison for her crime. Crawford is not representative of most tax preparers who provide honest services to their clients. (TNS) ATHENS, GA (Nov.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Sick excuses

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EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email By any other name; poor Service; a saga continues; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Rockford, Illinois: Tax preparer Gretchen Alvarez, 49, has pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false income tax returns. All rights reserved.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Getting personal

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Sole owner of Zion Outfitter, an outdoor retailer in Springdale, Utah, he handled the company finances and provided CPAs with information and records to prepare tax forms to submit to the IRS. He underreported his taxable personal income, which resulted in his evading at least $1.9 million in income tax.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Negative waves

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EDT 5 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Seeking shelter; please be Gentle; where the heart is; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Nixa, Missouri: Tax preparer Tina Louise Yager has pleaded guilty to making false and fictitious claims against the U.S. In 2018, 2019 and 2020, Lee cashed more than $1.4

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Prep perps

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CPA Timothy Trifilo has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for making a false statement on a mortgage loan application and for not filing an income tax return. For a decade, he did not file federal income tax returns nor pay taxes owed despite earning more than $7.7 All rights reserved. million during that time.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy

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From the second quarter of 2017 through the fourth quarter of 2020, he collected but did not pay over or report similar taxes to the IRS. Olson caused a total tax loss to the IRS exceeding $2.1 Valdez caused a total tax loss to the IRS of nearly $1.5 Hartford, Connecticut: Tax preparer Clyde Gibson Jr.,

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

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For the "Standard" option, Brown had his preparers falsely claim sick and family leave credits and other false items. Brown and other ghost preparers who worked with him falsified 63 federal income tax returns for clients, causing the Treasury to issue $1,003,631 in false tax refunds. All rights reserved.

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