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Georgia Tax Preparer Guilty of Filing $3 Million in Fraudulent Returns

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27)—A tax preparer who admitted to filing more than $3 million in fraudulent tax returns on behalf of her clients is facing up to 30 years in prison for her crime. Crawford is not representative of most tax preparers who provide honest services to their clients. (TNS) ATHENS, GA (Nov.

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Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time

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Advice for Tax Preparers Making tax preparers lives easier one blog at a time HOME. Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time. My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. That’s fine.

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Tax Preparer Finds Out in the Worst Way Possible That ERC Wasn’t a Free Money Glitch

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A federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey, returned an indictment Wednesday charging tax preparer Leon Haynes of Teaneck, New Jersey with fraudulently seeking more than $150 million from the IRS by filing more than 1,600 false tax returns for himself and his clients that claimed COVID-19-related employment tax credits.

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Florida Tax Preparer Gets Prison for False Returns and Online Romance Scam

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23, 2024, to two years in prison for a scheme to file false tax returns, and to two years in prison for an unrelated online romance scam. According to court documents and statements made in court related to the tax scheme, Iona Coates owned and operated Bits & Bytes Accounting Services Inc., In December 2020, U.S.

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Nominations Open for 2024 “40 Under 40” and “20 Under 40” Awards

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Here are the rules and expectations: Candidates should be working in the accounting field, or supporting the field (public, private, tax preparation, consulting, academia, government) and have not turned 40 as of Oct. Nominees must have not turned 40 by Oct.

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How the “Wild West” of Tax Preparation Led to Massive ERC Issues

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James Creech, a senior manager with Baker Tilly’s tax advocacy and controversy team, explained that the origin of the current issues with the ERC can be traced back to before the health emergency and the absence of tax preparer oversight. “Tax preparation is kind of the Wild West,” Creech began.

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Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor

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Advice for Tax Preparers Making tax preparers lives easier one blog at a time HOME. I put together this post to bring together any funny and entertaining accounting and tax videos, puns, jokes, pictures, etc. AT THE IRS “Why are we paying so much tax?” Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor.