Five Texas tax preparers have been sentenced to prison for submitted bogus returns with the manager of Waco-based Tax World, Labanda Loyd, drawing a term of four years three months.

Total tax returns received through March 10 were .1 percent lower than the number received by the Internal Revenue Service through March 11, 2022. But the number of efiles submitted for the same period were up 2 percent year-over-year, according to the latest numbers from the IR

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