Federal Court Orders Florida Tax Return Preparer to Stop Preparing Federal Tax Returns for Others | WPN World People News

Last Friday a federal court in Miami, Florida, permanently enjoined Rose M. Chazulle and her company, RMC Professional Services Corporation, from preparing federal tax returns for others. The defendants agreed to the civil injunction orders entered against them. In addition to barring the defendants from preparing, filing, or assisting in the preparation or filing of federal tax returns and amended returns, the court ordered the defendants to deliver a copy of the injunction to all of their customers since Jan. 1, 2010.

According to the complaint, the defendants prepared federal income tax returns for customers that falsely claimed:

● Refundable credits, including American Opportunity Tax Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit for customers who did not incur educational costs and otherwise did not qualify for these credits;

● Fuel tax credits for customers who had no businesses of any kind, even though the credit can only be taken when fuel is used for certain business purposes or to operate a school bus;

● Fabricated business losses, claimed on Schedule C, Profit or Loss from Business, even though the customers did not have a business; and

● Wages described as household help income in order to falsely claim an Earned Income Tax Credit or to create a larger refund than the customer otherwise would have been able to claim.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice