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Tax Fraud Blotter: Sick excuses

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EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email By any other name; poor Service; a saga continues; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Rockford, Illinois: Tax preparer Gretchen Alvarez, 49, has pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false income tax returns. The tax loss totaled $356,881. Sentencing is Sept.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Getting personal

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EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The not-so-great outdoors; spear itself; pain and gain; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Sole owner of Zion Outfitter, an outdoor retailer in Springdale, Utah, he handled the company finances and provided CPAs with information and records to prepare tax forms to submit to the IRS.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy

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EDT 5 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Another Naughty list; a couple of sharks; Miami vice; and other highlights of recent tax cases. San Jose, California: Execs Lalo Valdez and Matthew Olson have pleaded guilty to not paying over employment taxes to the IRS. Olson caused a total tax loss to the IRS exceeding $2.1

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M&A roundup: Meaden & Moore; Platform Accounting expand

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In 2021, it acquired Long Cook & Samsa in Wooster, Ohio, and in 2015 it acquired LBC International Investigative Accounting in Canada, London and Paris. Madison Street Advisors offers tax planning and preparation, focusing on audit mitigation strategies and reduction of audit profiles.

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Sax scores private equity investment

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I was elevated to managing partner in 2015 when the firm was about $25 million in revenue. Scalise, national partner-in-charge of Saxs Federal Tax Credits & Incentives Practice, who has also been spearheading many of the firms philanthropic efforts. In 2025, we estimate that we will exceed revenues of $130 million.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

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EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Underhanded underground; down on the farm; reality check; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Augusta, Georgia: Two ghost preparers have pleaded guilty to a tax scheme. By Jeff Stimpson July 10, 2025, 6:14 p.m.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Hard lessons

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EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Big rigged; fearsome foursome; NYPD blue; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Union City, Georgia: Truck driver Dantavious Jackson, 39, who operated a ghost tax prep business, has pleaded guilty to making claims for refunds of false pandemic-related employment tax credits.

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