Recent Tax Related Charges and Tax Crimes
| January 24, 2022 | Owner of a network of health care and rehabilitation facilities willfully failed to withhold and pay over employment taxes on behalf of his employees. | Charged with tax evasion, and failing to file benefit plan reports. |
| January 24, 2022 | a North Carolina man did not file any federal income tax returns, allegedly submitted to his employers IRS Forms W-4 falsely stating he was exempt from federal income tax withholding. | Charged with tax evasion and failing to file tax returns. |
| January 20, 2022 | A Detroit-area tax return preparer and her business reported false business income and expenses and claimed excessive deductions, resulting in undeserved refunds; falsely claimed head of household status for individuals not entitled to claim it. | Was permanently barred from preparing federal tax returns for others. |
| January 18, 2022 | Maryland security guard not filed income tax returns for 2015 through 2020; allegedly did not report to the IRS more than $1 million in total wages, allegedly also submitted false tax forms to his employers, claiming he was exempt from federal income tax withholding. | Charged with six counts of tax evasion. |
| January 10, 2022 | An Ohio man collected millions of dollars in fees while fraudulently inducing customers to visit ITS Financial LLC, used false advertising campaigns to entice customers to visit ITS locations for a loan, then used the loan applications to prepare and file income tax returns, often without the customer’s authorization. Between 2006 and 2011, ITS collected more than $70 million in fees. | Was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for conspiring with others to commit fraud in connection with the operation of a national tax return preparation company he owned and managed, as well as tax crimes. |
| January 7, 2022 | A city court judge allegedly officiated hundreds of marriage ceremonies each year but did not report on her federal tax returns the entire income. | Charged with filing false tax returns. |
| January 6, 2022 | RV Salesman instructed his employer not to withhold income taxes from his paycheck and then did not file tax returns from 2014 through 2016. Falsely claimed to have been shot down , falsely stated that a CPA had prepared tax returns on his behalf. | Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. |
| December 29, 2021 | Two Miami-area tax return preparers significantly understated their customers’ tax liabilities by claiming deductions for fabricated or inflated charitable deductions, medical expenses and employee business expenses; understated their customers’ tax liabilities by reporting false or inflated business losses. | Permanently enjoined from preparing federal income tax returns for others.
The fraudulent activities likely cost the United States millions of dollars in lost tax revenue. |
| December 22, 2021 | A Georgia man prepared and file false tax returns for individuals, by convincing them that their mortgages and other debts entitled them to tax refunds. | Pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States by promoting a nationwide tax fraud scheme to more than 200 participants in at least 19 states. |
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/north-carolina-man-indicted-tax-evasion
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-shuts-down-michigan-tax-return-preparer
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/new-orleans-city-judge-indicted-filing-false-returns
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-orleans-city-judge-indicted-filing-false-returns
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-permanently-shuts-down-two-miami-area-tax-return-preparers
