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Nov. 26, 2024 ¡ª 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.

IR-2023-17, January 31, 2023 ¡ª To help taxpayers navigate the beginning of the tax filing season, the Internal Revenue Service today offered a checklist of reminders for people as they prepare to file their 2022 tax returns.

IR-2022-38, February 16, 2022 ¡ª The IRS today provided further details on additional transition relief for certain domestic partnerships and S corporations preparing the new schedules K-2 and K-3 to further ease the change to these new schedules. Those eligible for the relief will not have to file the new schedules for tax year 2021.

December 19, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, returned a superseding indictment, unsealed last week, charging a Maryland man and a Texas man with conspiracy to defraud the United States, filing false income tax returns, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and theft of government funds. The Maryland man is also separately charged with tax evasion, willful failure to file income tax returns and bank fraud.

April 8, 2025 ¡ª A Needville tax preparer has been taken into custody on charges that she willfully helped clients file false tax returns with the IRS, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

April 14, 2023 ¡ª Federal grand juries in Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston returned separate indictments charging seven commercial fishermen with tax evasion and failing to file returns.

Aug. 19, 2024 ¡ª A businessman, formerly of Adel, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in federal prison for filing a false income tax return.

July 3, 2024 ¡ª A Pekin, Illinois, man, Kenin L. Edwards, was sentenced on July 1, 2024, to 21 months in federal prison for making and subscribing a false tax return. Edwards will also serve one year of supervised release and is required to pay restitution, in addition to a $10,000.00 fine.

October 17, 2022 ¡ª Today, United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey announced that a Montgomery tax preparer was sentenced for aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return. On Friday, October 14, 2022, Lashunda Deann Crittenden received a 16-month sentence to be followed by one year of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. In addition to her prison sentence, Crittenden was also ordered to pay a fine of $20,000.00 and $11.993.00 in restitution to the IRS.

January 17, 2024 ¡ª Michael E. Conner, of Warrensburg, New York, was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with perpetrating a scheme to defraud investors.