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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: Negative waves

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EDT 5 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Seeking shelter; please be Gentle; where the heart is; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Nixa, Missouri: Tax preparer Tina Louise Yager has pleaded guilty to making false and fictitious claims against the U.S. million in taxes on income he earned from his business.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Prep perps

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EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Bank job; the magic is gone; not a beautiful day in the Neighborhood; and other highlights of recent tax cases. CPA Timothy Trifilo has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for making a false statement on a mortgage loan application and for not filing an income tax return. .:

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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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Armanino merges in SAOS

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The need for outsourced services, especially in complex areas of finance, payroll, human resources, tax, fund administration and nonprofit strategic development outsourcing, is only growing, and this combination allows us to expand our outsourced finance offerings and scale faster to meet this major need." All rights reserved.

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Finance Strategy in an Uncertain Economy: What Today’s Leaders Need to Know

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“And given all of the economic uncertainty out there, they’re not sure if they’ll be able to raise their prices enough to fully countervail those cost increases and therefore to defend current margins.” Core Consumer Price Index and Personal Consumption Expenditures from May 2019 to April/May 2025. Although the U.S.

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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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