Anna Platos, Tax Return Preparer Fraud, Illinois 2014

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Tax Return Preparers Busted in Chicago

Anna Platos and Theodore (Ted) Platos, who do business as Midway Accounting Services, face permanent bar from preparing federal tax returns, according to a federal court complaint.

The civil injunction suit alleges that Anna Platos and Ted Platos claim bogus deductions and credits on customers’ federal tax returns. The complaint further alleges that Anna Platos and Ted Platos are aware that the customers do not qualify to claim the head-of-household filing status, and they fabricate claims for education credits, unreimbursed employee business expenses, charitable contributions, medical expenses, and state and local taxes paid on tax returns that they prepare.

According to the complaint, Ted Platos began doing business as API Tax Solutions in 2013. Anna Platos allegedly fabricated a receipt purportedly supporting an energy credit that she claimed on a customer’s tax return, presented that fabricated receipt to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and instructed the customer to lie to the IRS.

The complaint also requests that the federal court require Anna Platos and Ted Platos to provide the government with a list of customers for whom they have prepared tax returns beginning with the 2009 tax year, to contact those customers to inform them of the injunction order, and to post a copy of the injunction order at their place of business.

Return preparer fraud is one of the IRS’ Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2014. The IRS has some tips on their website for choosing a tax preparer. In the past decade, the Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of unscrupulous tax preparers.

The United States government filed the complaint in United States v. Anna Platos, etc., et al. in the federal court in Chicago, Illinois. If you believe that one of the enjoined persons or businesses may be violating an injunction, please contact the Tax Division with details.

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