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The government’s complaint also alleges that the defendants open an office in
Southern California during each tax-filing season to target members of a California
Indian tribe, due to the large fees they could obtain from tribe members.
“The Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service are working to stop
abuses of the tax system,” said Eileen J. O’Connor, Assistant Attorney General for
the Justice Department’s Tax Division. “All those who participate in the preparation
of false or fraudulent tax returns cheat their customers as well as the federal
treasury.”
According to papers filed in the case, Sperl is also known as Susan Ann Boyer, and
lives in Kingston Springs, Tennessee; her son Randall Thompson lives in Dickson,
Tennessee.
The complaint states that Sperl, Thompson, and their subordinates have prepared
returns for customers in 22 states and that their return-preparation misconduct in a
two-year period has cost the federal treasury an estimated $4 million. The suit asks
that the court require the pair to give the Justice Department their customers’ names,
Social Security and telephone numbers, and mailing and e-mail addresses.
This suit is part of an ongoing Justice Department and IRS crackdown on preparers
of false and fraudulent tax returns. More information about these cases is available
at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/taxpress2006.htm. More information about home-based
business tax avoidance schemes can be found in IRS Publication 4035, available at
http://www.irs.gov. More information about the Justice Department’s Tax Division
is available at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/index.html.
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