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A federal court in the Northern District of Illinois has permanently enjoined a Chicago, Illinois, tax return preparer from preparing returns for others and from owning or operating any tax return preparation business in the future.
The civil complaint filed in the case alleged that Lennette Roberts and her company, Real Counseling Solution Inc., which did business under the assumed name RR Tax and Accounting, prepared fraudulent federal income tax returns. According to the complaint, defendants prepared returns that made false and fraudulent claims including: (1) false itemized deductions; (2) fabricated losses for non-existent businesses; (3) false or inflated earned income tax credits; and (4) false head-of-household filing statuses (which results in a lower rate as compared to single filing status).
According to the court’s order, Lennette Roberts and her company consented to entry of the injunction, which permits the United States to conduct…
