Two Florida businesses have been barred from preparing federal tax returns for others and have been ordered to disgorge $710,191.55. The court also entered a default judgment barring Lenorris Lamoute and Dosuld Pierre, who prepared returns for Advanced Tax Services, prohibiting them from being in the business.
Advanced Tax and Genson Financial Group were the two corporations and the court had previously barred Marcgenson Marc, who owned them, along with Tiana Character and Character’s business, Character Financial Solutions LLC, and Shirleen Thales. Marc was ordered to disgorge $710,191.55.
The preparers were found to have made phony claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit, using such techniques as on fabricated business income and expenses, bogus or improperly claimed dependents, and false filing status, along with reporting non-existent Schedule A business, false itemized deductions, false or fraudulent fuel tax credits, and bogus education expenses.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind