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Justice Department Continues Efforts to Stop Fraudulent Tax Preparers

CPA Practice

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

CPA Practice

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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How the “Wild West” of Tax Preparation Led to Massive ERC Issues

ThomsonReuters

James Creech, a senior manager with Baker Tilly’s tax advocacy and controversy team, explained that the origin of the current issues with the ERC can be traced back to before the health emergency and the absence of tax preparer oversight. “Tax preparation is kind of the Wild West,” Creech began.

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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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Obtaining an Extension to File Your Tax Return

Withum

The tax due date for most individual tax returns this year is April 18. If you are unable to complete your return to file by April 18, you can file for an extension to submit your return by October 17. However, the extension does not cover the payment of the tax due.

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Georgia Tax Preparer Gets 2 Years in Prison for Tax Evasion

CPA Practice

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. As the owner, he hired, trained and supervised tax preparers, while continuing to prepare returns for customers.

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IRS Warns of ‘Wildly Inaccurate Tax Advice’ on Social Media

CPA Practice

But people should be careful with who they’re following on social media for tax advice. Unlike hacks to fix a leaky kitchen sink or creative makeup tips, people shouldn’t rely on made-up ways on social media to patch up their tax return and boost their refund,” he added. There are two other variations of the W-2 scheme.

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