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Preparer Sentenced to Six Years

Saturday, Jul 01 2023
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 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.

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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
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