A Texas tax scam has left the federal government out $500,000, according to a recent court filing.
Patricia Foley, aka Sissy Foley, Amanda Smith, April Leann Morgan, aka April Leann Ercanbrack, Cassandra Egbert, and Joshua Stifle have been accused of preparing false tax returns for their customers, claiming inflated business expense deductions on Schedule F (Profit or Loss from Farming) of their returns.
As a result, the government claims their customers have repeatedly reported and paid less tax than they actually owe.
The United States has asked a federal court in Waco, Texas, to permanently bar the tax preparers individually and through the business Accounting System Services, doing business as A Kind Bookkeeping and Tax Service, from preparing federal tax returns for others.
The complaint alleges that the defendants prepared income tax returns for their customers that contain false, improper or inflated business expense deductions on Schedule F of their returns.
The IRS has ranked return-preparer fraud as one of the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2014, and has provided tips for choosing a tax preparer on their website.
The Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of fraudulent tax preparers in the past decade.
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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