Complaint fi led to shut down Bronx
tax preparer and his company
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, M 38 ARCH 12-18, 2021 BTR
BY JASON COHEN
The government is seeking an injunction
to permanently bar a Bronx accountant
from preparing or fi ling federal tax
returns on behalf of others.
The complaint alleges that Rafael
Alvarez and Atax New York have fi led
fraudulent tax returns on behalf of their
customers in order to reduce their customers’
tax liability and generate refunds
to which those customers were
not entitled.
“Tax return preparers who regularly
cheat the tax system by preparing fraudulent
federal income tax returns for
their customers should not be permitted
to continue in business,” said U.S. Attorney
Audrey Strauss. “This offi ce will
work with the IRS to shut down return
preparers who fl eece the Treasury by
claiming improper deductions or credits
for their customers.”
Located at 5536 Broadway, Atax prepared
and fi led over 36,000 federal income
tax returns from 2016 to 2019. In
preparing those returns, Atax and Alvarez
allegedly fi led false federal income
tax returns for their customers by fabricating,
among other things, unreimbursed
business expenses, charitable
contributions, capital loss carryovers
and tuition expenses. Many tax returns
also falsely claimed “head of household”
status for their customers as part of this
scheme, even by using social security
numbers belonging to deceased individuals
in claiming dependents.
The complaint also asks the court
to order the defendants to turn over
the fraudulent profi ts they earned.
THE CITY CLERK
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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