SOME GOOD READING

Have you ever visited the North Carolina. Gov site? If you want some good reading material it's better than "Cops" or "Law and Order" and I'm a huge fan of both shows.

There are stories after stories of people that have been sentenced to jail for various tax charges and the North Carolina Department of Revenue is not playing around. One story stuck in my mind about a lady that was a professional preparer and was charged with 34 counts of aiding or assisting in the preparation of fraudulent income tax returns and two counts of attempting to evade or defeat the state’s individual income tax.

As part of her sentence, she was also ordered not to prepare or file tax returns for others. The state’s evidence showed that she was a paid tax preparer and completed both original and amended North Carolina individual income tax returns for clients that she knew were false.

She also told several of her clients that she had worked for the Internal Revenue Service and the North Carolina Department of Revenue, although she had never worked for either agency.

Check out the nc.gov site and look under press releases for The Revenue Department

P. Harker, Tax Advisor4/Tax Preparation
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