e-News for Tax Professionals Issue 2019-40

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Issue Number:  2019-40

Inside This Issue

1. Get Ready for Taxes Campaign Kicks Off
2. Nationwide Tax Forums Online: Disaster Training
3. Relief for Additional Texas Storm Victims
4. News from the Justice Department's Tax Division

The IRS is here to help you get your clients ready for the upcoming tax filing season, beginning this week with the first in a series of reminders urging taxpayers to make necessary adjustments to withholding, gather records, renew expiring tax identification numbers and more. The IRS encourages tax professionals to review the newly updated page Steps to Take Now to Get a Jump on Next Year’s Taxes on IRS.gov.

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Do you deal with storm, flooding or wildfire victims? The IRS Nationwide Tax Forums Online (NTFO) feature an online seminar, Dealing with Disasters, which qualifies for continuing professional education credit. The seminar, recorded at the 2019 IRS Tax Forums, provides a general overview of what losses qualify for disaster relief, how to identify casualty losses and how to report disaster losses.

To review the full roster of seminars, visit IRS Nationwide Tax Forums Online.

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Victims of Tropical Storm Imelda in San Jacinto County, Texas, now qualify for tax relief from the Internal Revenue Service.

Visit the IRS disaster relief page for all updates on tax relief for disaster victims.

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The U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division this week reported:

A Keasbey, N.J., tax return preparer was sentenced to 29 months in prison for filing false tax returns on behalf of clients and failing to file his own tax returns. According to court documents, David Patterson, 38, owned and operated D&D Tax Service LLC, a tax preparation business. Through the firm, he prepared fraudulent tax returns for tax year 2012 in which he knowingly falsified his clients’ medical and dental expenses, gifts to charity, and unreimbursed employee expenses. At times, he took portions of his clients’ tax refunds and deposited them without authorization into bank accounts he maintained and controlled. Patterson also failed to file individual income tax returns for himself, and to pay federal income taxes, for 2013 through 2015. In addition to the prison term, Patterson was sentenced to one year of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $290,321 to the IRS.

A resident of Orleans Parish, La., pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States on tax returns. According to court documents, Carlanda Allegra Isaac worked for Pelican Income Tax and Bookkeeping Services LLC, located in Bridge City and Kenner, La., and then later at another tax preparation business called Taxes by J.A.D.A. located in New Orleans. Isaac and others conspired to defraud the United States by falsifying client tax returns to include false income, withholding and education credits in order to fraudulently inflate the clients’ tax refunds. Isaac charged a fee for preparing these returns, which was often deducted from the client’s refund. When sentenced, Isaac faces a maximum sentence of five years, three years of supervised release, restitution and other monetary penalties.

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