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The owner of a tax preparation firm that operations locations in Alabama and Georgia has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns. Bruce King, who owns Premier Tax, is one of nine people associated with Premier Tax to have been convicted of crimes involving phony returns. On Thursday, Vonecia Orum, a preparer who worked at the company, pleaded guilty to delivering false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service.
Six of the individuals were named in a 28-count indictment returned in March. Besides King and Orum, these included Antoinette Djonret, Nakesha Donaldson, Angela Smith and Jenika Williams, who previously pleaded guilty. In July and August last year, three other defendants, Tonja Toney, Kimberly Womack and Kina Lane, pleaded guilty to criminal informations charging them with filing false tax returns.
King was accused of holding training sessions in which preparers were taught how to fix returns to increase refunds. The IRS claims the amount of the fraudulent returns exceeded $1 million. Four defendants, Djonret, Donaldson, Smith, and Williams, used false dependents on clients' tax returns and pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated identity theft, in addition to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States or filing false tax returns.