New York Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing Tens of Thousands of False Tax Returns Depriving the IRS of More Than $100 Million in Tax Revenue
Over a ten-year period from 2010 to 2020, a New York tax preparer submitted tens of thousands tax returns with false information to reduce his customers' tax liabilities and increase their refunds. The tax returns included - among other things - bogus deductions, fraudulent tax credits, and phony business expenses. The tax preparer's practice of making these items appear on a return to reduce tax liabilities became so prevalent he was known as "the Magician" to his customers.
Read the Department of Justice's press release for more information about the work we did with the IRS and the FBI on this case.
And here's a quick refresher on what we do investigate - and what we don't - when it comes to tax preparers.
We generally don't investigate tax practitioners who prepare fraudulent tax returns. IRS's Criminal Investigation function handles those cases and we help them depending on the circumstances of the case.
But we do investigate tax preparer misconduct. For example, you can use our hotline if a tax preparer:
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Stole a portion of your tax refund.
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Stole and/or misused your identity.
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Disclosed your tax return to an unauthorized person.
- Falsified their qualifications.
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