Tax preparer arrested in Belize last year sentenced in nearly $2M scheme

The owner of the Hillsborough County tax preparation business created falsified tax returns that led to overinflated refunds for clients.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 4:35 p.m. February 8, 2023
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A Hillsborough County tax preparer has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty in October to helping create “well over” a thousand false and fraudulent income tax returns that cost the IRS nearly $2 million.

 

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