Wayne Perry, Tax Evasion, Georgia 2024

A federal court has delivered a crushing blow to Wayne Perry, a Macon, Ga., man, and his tax preparation firms, Premier Choice Inc. and Perry Tax Services, as they have been permanently barred from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced today.

Perry agreed to the injunction.

The government's complaint alleged that Perry fraudulently claimed fuel tax credits for customers who were not entitled to them. The fuel tax credit is available only to taxpayers who operate farm equipment or off-highway business vehicles. Perry allegedly claimed absurdly large credits by falsely reporting purchases of huge quantities of gasoline where, in most cases, the cost of the gasoline was greater than the customers' annual income.

Perry had prepared over 6,300 federal tax returns since 2004, according to the government.

Fuel credit scams were on last year's IRS list of the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams. In the past few years the Justice Department has obtained injunctions shutting down many tax preparers who claim the phony credits on customers' returns.

In the past decade, the Justice Department's Tax Division has obtained more than 425 injunctions against tax fraud promoters and tax return preparers. Information about these cases is available on the Justice Department's Web site, as is information about the Justice Department's Tax Division.

Defendant/respondent: Wayne Perry

Criminal charges: Fraudulently claiming fuel tax credits

City and state: Macon, Georgia

Exact date: Not specified

Sentence or outcome: Permanently barred from preparing federal tax returns

Dollar amounts: Not specified

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/federal-court-bars-georgia-man-tax-preparation-businesses-preparing-returns