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Tax Fraud Blotter: ‘Daddy needs your ID’
Source:
accountingtoday.com
- Aug 9, 2017
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Des Moines, Iowa: Preparer Lony Tap Gatwas, 48, of Ames, Iowa, has been convicted of preparing and presenting false returns, wire fraud and aggravated ID theft.
Gatwas was charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud the IRS by preparing and filing personal income tax returns listing false dependents. Evidence showed that Gatwas placed his own children, as well as other children, on his clients’ personal returns as dependents to inflate clients’ refunds by thousands of dollars.
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