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Tax Preparer to Repay $888K

Thursday, Aug 17 2023
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  Laide M. Paulino, a Freeland, Pa.-based tax preparer, has agreed to pay the Internal Revenue Service $888,377 in restitution. Paulino, owner of LP Multiservice, agreed to that step as a part of a guilty plea to preparing and filing false tax returns/

Paulino was charged with assisting clients in falsely claiming education tax credits, including the American Opportunity Tax Credit, for clients in 2019 and 2020. The vast majority were not college students and thus not entitled to the credit.

She acknowledged the returns she prepared and filed cost the IRS between $550,000 and $1.5 million dollars in lost taxes.

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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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