Tax Preparer Sentenced to Multiple Years In Prison for Filing Multiple False Tax Returns
Damian Barrett, a Florida tax preparer, was convicted of filing 745 false tax returns in 19 states. Barrett owned two tax preparation companies. He used one to file legitimate returns and the other to file false returns. From 2015 to 2018 Barrett filed 348 false returns in the state of Oregon alone, requesting […]
Money Grows on Trees for Nursery Bookkeeper
The bookkeeper for a family owned tree nursery in North Carolina pleaded guilty to embezzling more than one million dollars over a six year period. Richard Clark began working for the nursery in 2003, and in 2013 started writing checks to himself from the company. He covered his tracks by altering the check descriptions […]
Instructor Fails to Learn the Language of the IRS
Daniel Berglund, a self-employed computer language instructor, was convicted of four counts of tax evasion for failing to file taxes from 1987 to 2017. Berglund took many steps to hide his income from the IRS – including giving his clients a made up tax identification number to prevent payments to him from being reported to […]