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ymarkovПо поводу недавнего разговора о профессиональной ответственности, несколько новостей по теме:
Las Vegas, New Mexico: Preparer Carlos Perea, 44, has pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting the preparation of false income tax returns.
Perea owned and operated Perea Fast Tax, where he prepared income tax returns for clients and filed them with the IRS electronically and by mail. He admitted to reporting false information to decrease tax liabilities and increase refunds. Among the deceptive practices were deducting bogus business expenses, falsely reporting head of household status to increase the standard deduction and improperly claiming dependents to increase exemptions.
He faces up to three years in prison on each count.
Tucson, Arizona: Tax preparer Adan Ramirez, 37, has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay $100,479 in restitution to the IRS.
Ramirez, who previously pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting the preparation of false returns, presented fraudulent claims for wages, withholdings, dependents, Earned Income Tax Credits and Additional Child Tax Credits to obtain refunds.
Erie, Pennsylvania: Resident Andrea Jones has pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns and aiding and assisting the filing of false and fraudulent income tax returns.
Jones prepared and filed false federal returns for herself and others who used her as their preparer for tax years 2011 through 2015.
Sentencing is March 9. Jones faces a possible total sentence of 42 years in prison and a fine of $3.5 million.
Missoula, Montana: CPA Daniel Brian Burke, 62, has been convicted of six counts of aiding and assisting to subscribing to a false document.
The verdict related to a scheme in which he filed false returns on a couple’s businesses by skimming cash and deducting personal expenses such as vacations, home improvements and boats as business expenses.
Prosecutors said Burke signed false returns along with co-defendants and clients Traci and Joseph Baumgardner, owners of AJB Inc., for years 2011 to 2013. The Baumgardners reported gross receipts of $5,001,374 and paid federal taxes totaling $10,066 for the time. Through AJB, the Baumgardners operated two businesses, Splash Car Wash and Pro Sweeps Plus, an industrial maintenance service. Burke owned and operated Burke and Co. PC, and prepared corporate and individual returns for the Baumgardners.
Prosecutors said an undercover IRS investigation showed evidence of two theories for the false returns. In one theory, Burke instructed the Baumgardners not to deposit cash in the bank or report it as income as required; a search by the IRS found $50,000 cash in a safe owned by the Baumgardners. In the second theory, the couple deducted personal expenses as business expenses. The deducted personal expenses included vacations, residential expenses such as utilities, remodeling and house cleaning, retail purchases, purchases such as boats, dune buggies and watercraft, and a country club membership.
Prosecutors said the Baumgardners and Burke depreciated assets at 100 percent of business use, disguised items — a boat was called a “sweeper” — and double-depreciated assets.
An undercover IRS agent met with Burke and in a recorded interview, Burke demonstrated his knowledge of skimming cash and deducting personal expenses as business expenses. At one point, Burke asked the agent, “You’re not an undercover agent from the IRS or anything?” The agent responded no, and Burke told the agent how to avoid taxes.
The Baumgardners each pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count and testified against Burke. They were each sentenced in June to three years of probation and ordered to pay $89,918 in restitution.
Burke faces a maximum of three years in prison, a $100,000 fine and three years of supervised release on each count.
Camden, New Jersey: Kenneth Crawford Jr. has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the U.S., filing false claims, and obstructing internal revenue laws.
Between 2015 and 2016, Crawford and conspirators promoted and sold a “mortgage recovery” tax fraud in which they obtained fraudulent refunds from the IRS for their clients. Crawford promoted the scheme to individuals who were facing foreclosure or were behind on their mortgage payments, telling them they could extinguish their outstanding mortgage debts by filing tax forms with the IRS.
Crawford and his conspirators directed clients to file forms that fraudulently claimed that a substantial amount of taxes had already been withheld from them. These false claims caused the IRS to issue significant undeserved refunds. More than $2.5 million in fraudulent refunds were sought from the IRS, of which the IRS paid out more than $1.3 million. Crawford charged about 25 percent for each refund obtained. When the IRS discovered the fraud, Crawford gave clients false documents to send to the IRS, directed clients to conceal from the IRS his role in filing the false returns and advised clients to remove funds from bank accounts in their names.
He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and to pay some $1,393,511 in restitution to the U.S
Las Vegas, New Mexico: Preparer Carlos Perea, 44, has pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting the preparation of false income tax returns.
Perea owned and operated Perea Fast Tax, where he prepared income tax returns for clients and filed them with the IRS electronically and by mail. He admitted to reporting false information to decrease tax liabilities and increase refunds. Among the deceptive practices were deducting bogus business expenses, falsely reporting head of household status to increase the standard deduction and improperly claiming dependents to increase exemptions.
He faces up to three years in prison on each count.
Tucson, Arizona: Tax preparer Adan Ramirez, 37, has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay $100,479 in restitution to the IRS.
Ramirez, who previously pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting the preparation of false returns, presented fraudulent claims for wages, withholdings, dependents, Earned Income Tax Credits and Additional Child Tax Credits to obtain refunds.
Erie, Pennsylvania: Resident Andrea Jones has pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns and aiding and assisting the filing of false and fraudulent income tax returns.
Jones prepared and filed false federal returns for herself and others who used her as their preparer for tax years 2011 through 2015.
Sentencing is March 9. Jones faces a possible total sentence of 42 years in prison and a fine of $3.5 million.
Missoula, Montana: CPA Daniel Brian Burke, 62, has been convicted of six counts of aiding and assisting to subscribing to a false document.
The verdict related to a scheme in which he filed false returns on a couple’s businesses by skimming cash and deducting personal expenses such as vacations, home improvements and boats as business expenses.
Prosecutors said Burke signed false returns along with co-defendants and clients Traci and Joseph Baumgardner, owners of AJB Inc., for years 2011 to 2013. The Baumgardners reported gross receipts of $5,001,374 and paid federal taxes totaling $10,066 for the time. Through AJB, the Baumgardners operated two businesses, Splash Car Wash and Pro Sweeps Plus, an industrial maintenance service. Burke owned and operated Burke and Co. PC, and prepared corporate and individual returns for the Baumgardners.
Prosecutors said an undercover IRS investigation showed evidence of two theories for the false returns. In one theory, Burke instructed the Baumgardners not to deposit cash in the bank or report it as income as required; a search by the IRS found $50,000 cash in a safe owned by the Baumgardners. In the second theory, the couple deducted personal expenses as business expenses. The deducted personal expenses included vacations, residential expenses such as utilities, remodeling and house cleaning, retail purchases, purchases such as boats, dune buggies and watercraft, and a country club membership.
Prosecutors said the Baumgardners and Burke depreciated assets at 100 percent of business use, disguised items — a boat was called a “sweeper” — and double-depreciated assets.
An undercover IRS agent met with Burke and in a recorded interview, Burke demonstrated his knowledge of skimming cash and deducting personal expenses as business expenses. At one point, Burke asked the agent, “You’re not an undercover agent from the IRS or anything?” The agent responded no, and Burke told the agent how to avoid taxes.
The Baumgardners each pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count and testified against Burke. They were each sentenced in June to three years of probation and ordered to pay $89,918 in restitution.
Burke faces a maximum of three years in prison, a $100,000 fine and three years of supervised release on each count.
Camden, New Jersey: Kenneth Crawford Jr. has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the U.S., filing false claims, and obstructing internal revenue laws.
Between 2015 and 2016, Crawford and conspirators promoted and sold a “mortgage recovery” tax fraud in which they obtained fraudulent refunds from the IRS for their clients. Crawford promoted the scheme to individuals who were facing foreclosure or were behind on their mortgage payments, telling them they could extinguish their outstanding mortgage debts by filing tax forms with the IRS.
Crawford and his conspirators directed clients to file forms that fraudulently claimed that a substantial amount of taxes had already been withheld from them. These false claims caused the IRS to issue significant undeserved refunds. More than $2.5 million in fraudulent refunds were sought from the IRS, of which the IRS paid out more than $1.3 million. Crawford charged about 25 percent for each refund obtained. When the IRS discovered the fraud, Crawford gave clients false documents to send to the IRS, directed clients to conceal from the IRS his role in filing the false returns and advised clients to remove funds from bank accounts in their names.
He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and to pay some $1,393,511 in restitution to the U.S
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Date: 2020-12-09 07:47 pm (UTC)Ну кроме тех тюремных дел, там по сути на бабки то попадает не управление тюрем и не тюремщик, а опять таки налогоплатильщик.
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Date: 2020-12-09 07:57 pm (UTC)(Как в античности за то, что спёр или поломал раб, отвечал его хозяин.)
Пример пистона по статье 1983 (civil action for deprivation of rights) против госслужащих можно найти много, но почти все они будут против разных ментов и т.п., конечно.