Mother and daughter-in-law tax preparers from the south suburbs have been barred by a federal judge from ever preparing taxes for others in the future because of fraud.
The justice department says Patricia Rivers, of Country Club Hills and her daughter-in-law, Ki’esha Gary, of South Holland, and the company, Alpha II Omega Tax, made false and fraudulent claims to reduce clients’ tax liabilities and inflate returns primarily by fabricating sole proprietorship losses.
It says they also inflated refunds by reporting false charitable donations, employee expenses, rental deductions and education credits.
In one instance, the government says, Rivers reported her own home address as a rental property to generate losses on a client’s return. Another time, it says, she changed a return to increase liability as retaliation against a client.
Related
The IRS looked into 38 of their client’s returns and found that the loss to the government was about $300,000.
It also noted they prepared nearly 3,000 returns over a period of four years, so the loss is likely much greater.
This was a civil case brought by the Justice Department.
Related
