A tax preparer based in Riverside, Calif., has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $3.4 million in restitution. Andrew Zepeda Hansack, age 40, drew the sentence for costing the Internal Revenue Service more than $3 million in tax losses.Hansack pleaded guilty on February 27 to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return.
At AJ Loyal Income Tax Service, he filed about 2,533 tax returns with bogus deductions on behalf of clients for tax year for 2015 through 2016.
Hansack’s fraud including claiming mortgage interest deductions for clients who do not own a home, along with false medical expenses, sales tax, and gifts by cash or check
He was found to have cost the IRS $3.37 million in losses. Besides paying $3,369,886 in restitution he was fined $50,000.
