The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS” or the “Service”) aggregates, reviews, and analyzes taxpayer data and determines whether ...

Preparing your own tax return can be terrifying. Not only might you have to decipher complicated tax rules, but you’re constantly worrying about using the wrong form, missing a valuable tax deduction, ...

An easy way to find a local tax return preparer is probably to search online for "tax preparers near me" and pick someone from the list. But that isn't the best way. If you want a qualified, honest, ...

Stephanie Murrin underpaid her taxes from 1993 to 1999 because her tax preparer, Duane Howell, placed false or fraudulent entries on her tax returns with an intent to evade tax. Murrin did not intend ...

A pair of lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation to regulate tax preparers in the latest effort to ferret out unqualified preparers. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-California, and Tom Rice, R-South ...

Ghosting doesn’t just happen while dating. It happens while filing tax returns too. Ghost preparers take your money to prepare your tax return but never sign it, making them untraceable if things go ...

Dear Liz: I have a question about an unethical accountant. I am a retiree living on my investments. My accountant continually put me on extension and every October told me how much to pay. Finally, I ...

Leon Haynes, of Teaneck, was convicted over a scheme that sought over $170 million in fraudulent refunds relating to COVID-19 employment tax credits.

If you pay someone to file your taxes, you expect them to follow the law and protect your data. A new bipartisan bill ...

A jury convicted Leon Haynes of 15 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false tax returns, ...

An Indiana tax preparer, Anita Marie Rodriguez Perez, receives an 18-month prison sentence for filing over 460 false tax ...