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Tax Fraud Blotter: Sick excuses

Accounting Today

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. All rights reserved.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy

Accounting Today

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

Accounting Today

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. All rights reserved.

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Sax scores private equity investment

Accounting Today

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. All rights reserved. relocate offices; and more news from across the profession.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

Accounting Today

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. All rights reserved. By Jeff Stimpson July 10, 2025, 6:14 p.m.

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NY sues FDIC over $44M in unpaid Signature Bank taxes

Accounting Today

The city's department of finance audited Signature after the bank shuttered in March and found tax deficiencies for years 2015 through 2021 related to unreported income allocation and adjustments to investment and capital income.

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A London-based accountant rides the wave of digital transformation

Intuit

A whole new outlook As a passionate accounting professional who thrives on change, Eriona was excited by one of the biggest shifts to ripple across the UK accounting industry in decades: the UK government’s 2015 decision to digitize the tax system. In researching compliance solutions, Eriona came across Intuit QuickBooks.