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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: 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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Three charged in plot to boost firm value before SPAC deal

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billion market value after going public in 2021. The indictment alleges that the scheme operated between May 2021 and September 2023. Those failures represented more than $46 billion in shareholder losses and included several major firms, including flexible workplace provided WeWork Inc., which boasted a $9.4

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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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Bet on growth through experimentation at firms

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The difficult strategic decisions facing accounting firm leaders today boil down to two options: pursuing the increasingly popular path of private equity or journeying down the less certain road of independent innovation and transformation. Since 2021, nearly a quarter of the 100 biggest U.S. accounting firms have taken PE investment.

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Tech news: SmartVault plans AI document management tool

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SmartVault plans release of AI document management solution Document management Sutthiphong - stock.adobe.com Document management solutions provider SmartVault announced the upcoming release of SmartRequestAI, a new tool designed to transform the way firms collect client information and documents during tax season.