Martha A. Jones, a Chicago tax return preparer, has been accused of claiming bogus tax deductions on her customers’ federal income tax returns, according to a lawsuit filed by the United States government.
The civil injunction suit, filed in the Northern District of Illinois on an unspecified date, alleges that Jones includes deductions for fabricated charitable contributions, employee business expenses, and other items on her customers’ tax returns.
According to the government complaint, the Internal Revenue Service examined 56 of the returns that Jones prepared for tax years between 2005 and 2008 and found that all of them contained inaccuracies.
The complaint also alleges that Jones fails to sign her customers’ returns and has continued to do so even after being advised that she is legally required to sign the tax returns that she prepares.
The complaint estimates that the tax losses to the United States from Jones’s misconduct could exceed $1 million.
The U.S. government is seeking to bar Jones from preparing federal tax returns for others.
In the past 10 years, the Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of tax-return preparers and tax fraud promoters.
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Key Facts
- State: Illinois
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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