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Ex-IRS Employee Charged with Tax Evasion

Thursday, Oct 21 2021
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A South Carolina man has been accused of claiming fraudulent deductions and expenses on several years of tax returns. Anindictment says Wayne M. Garvin was employed as a Supervisory Associate Advocate with the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service in Philadelphia when filed the allegedly bogus returns from 2021 through 2016.
Garvin, currently living in Columbia, S.C., is also accused of submitting false documents to an IRS agent for an audit of his 2013 and 2014 returns. He allegedly created receipts from a church, invoices from a contractor and a letter from the Department of the Army and also presented those to IRS Criminal Investigation after was notified he was being investigated. He faces a maximum of five years in prison on each of three counts of tax evasion and three years each on two counts of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws .
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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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