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Justice Department Continues Efforts to Stop Fraudulent Tax Preparers

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The Department of Justice is warning taxpayers to choose their return preparers wisely as the April 18 federal tax filing deadline approaches. Unscrupulous preparers who include errors or false information on a tax return could leave a taxpayer open to liability for unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.

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Florida Tax Preparer Gets Prison for False Returns and Online Romance Scam

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23, 2024, to two years in prison for a scheme to file false tax returns, and to two years in prison for an unrelated online romance scam. According to court documents and statements made in court related to the tax scheme, Iona Coates owned and operated Bits & Bytes Accounting Services Inc.,

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Georgia Tax Preparer Gets 2 Years in Prison for Tax Evasion

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A Georgia man was sentenced on December 19 to two years in prison for evading his personal federal income taxes. According to court documents and statements made in court, from 1999 to 2021, Samir Patel, of Statesboro, was a tax return preparer at a national return preparation business.

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How To File Your 2021 Tax Return While Waiting For 2020 To Be Processed

Nancy McClelland, LLC

To validate and successfully submit an electronically filed tax return to the IRS , taxpayers need their adjusted gross income, or AGI, from their most recent tax return. The IRS has a couple of “special tips” to ensure the tax return is accepted by the IRS for processing.

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Texas Tax Preparer Guilty of PPP Fraud and Tax Conspiracy

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A professional tax return preparer in Texas recently pleaded guilty to “engaging in a multi-year conspiracy to prepare and file false tax returns on behalf of clients and obtaining a fraudulent loan under the Paycheck Protection Program” (“PPP”). In all, the co-conspirators caused a tax loss exceeding $1.8

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IRS Direct File Tool May Especially Help Latinos

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With tax filing season in full swing, Latinos may turn to for-profit tax preparers. Other Latino filers will turn to online tax filing services, some of which been accused of taking advantage of American taxpayers and falsely marketing their services as free. This only exacerbates existing access disparities.

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IRS Releases Long-Awaited ERC Voluntary Settlement Program

Withum

Taxpayers also must disclose to the IRS identifying information and other details about any advisors or tax preparers who advised or assisted them with their ERC claims. In addition to the VDP, the IRS announced that it started sending up to 20,000 letters with proposed tax adjustments to recapture erroneously claimed ERCs.