Ex-IRS Employee Charged with Tax Evasion
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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