Connecticut tax preparer pleads guilty for filing false tax returns
January 16th, 2010 - 3:38 am ICT by BNO NewsEAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT (BNO NEWS) – Connecticut tax preparer plead guilty Thursday for one count of aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return, which resulted in over $500,000 in improper refunds to her customers.
Maria Cintron, 45, according to court documents and statements made in court, between 2005 and 2009, Cintron and employees of her tax preparation business prepared and filed returns for clients that improperly included deductions for nonexistent or inflated expenses, such as uniform costs and inflated charitable contributions. She and her employees also prepared false returns claiming improper entitlement to Earned Income Tax Credits.
During these years, Cintron was the principle owner and operator of a tax preparation business known as PR Family LLC, federal law enforcement officials conducted a search at the business and Cintron’s residence on April 15, 2009.
Internal Revenue Service audits revealed that, between 2005 and 2007, Cintron and her employees assisted in the preparation of approximately 183 false tax returns that resulted in an overpayment of improper funds to her customers to a grand total of approximately $505,339 in income taxes.
Citron faces a maximum term of incarceration of three years and a fine of up to $100,000, for which she has placed $125,000 in an escrow account to satisfy the judgment.
Cintron has agreed to the entry of a permanent injunction that will bar her from preparing tax returns in the future. She must also pay to the Internal Revenue Service a sum to be determined as the result of her fraudulently filing her own and others’ personal income tax returns.
This investigation was organized and investigated by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division.
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