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wt1531

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Thu Feb 21, 2013, 09:55 AM Feb 2013

Help in reporting a tax preparer fraud to the IRS [View all]

I need someone to give me info or guidance in reporting this tax preparer in my city who, unknown to most of his clients, is filing false deductions and exemptions on their returns (such as huge tuition costs when the client has never set foot in a school) to inflate their tax refunds and then reap 500 to $600 kickback to him per client. I do other things in the area and a lot of my clients, wonderiing why they were getting huge tax refunds, come by my office to show me their returns and that Is how I discovered exactly what he was doing. Some are going through painful IRS audits for past returns
because of what he did and he seems to attract them in the thousands promising "big refunds". Anybody know how one can alert the IRS anonymously so that he won't get more people in trouble?

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