WILMINGTON, DE – A Dover accountant has been charged by a grand jury for filing and preparing false and fraudulent tax returns.
According to a statement released by David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, Harvey Walker, 54, a Dover tax preparer was charged with preparing false and fraudulent returns.
According to the indictment, “During the 2015 through 2019 tax years, Walker prepared 23 fraudulent returns for eight different individual clients. Those returns are alleged, among other things, to have falsely claimed deductions for charitable contributions and unreimbursed employee expenses and to have falsely claimed business losses. The maximum penalty for each count is three years of incarceration and a $100,000 fine.”
“Tax return preparers play an important role in helping citizens understand the complexities of the tax code and their obligations under it. When tax preparers abuse their knowledge and the trust that the system places in them by causing their clients to file false returns, it hurts everyone. My office will not hesitate to prosecute those who counsel fraud and prepare false returns.”
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