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Kansas city Man Submits False Documents to IRS
With tax season just ended, most taxpayers go about the business of making claims for refunds. Robert C. Logan of Kansas City, Missouri is no different from the many millions who claim tax refunds, except that Logan’s claims were false and fraudulent. Logan filed false and inflated forms W2s Earning and Withholding statements and false Forms 1090 US Individual Income Tax Return for the tax years 2007 to 2009 to claim refunds to which he was not entitled.
Besides that, Logan also did the same for several other individuals. To accomplish his plan, Logan recruited people to file federal income tax returns under their own names and social security numbers. He then filed their returns electronically claiming refunds that they were not supposed to get. Logan would claim the fraudulent refunds by having them direct deposited into one of his two bank accounts at Bank Midwest and Central Communications Credit Union.
Logan’s practice would be to withdraw a part of the refund in cash and give it to the individual taxpayer and take a substantial cut of the refund as a fee for his ‘services’. Altogether, Logan filed about 34 false tax returns fraudulently claiming tax refunds of approximately $106,174 from the United States government.
Last December, Logan pleaded guilty to charges of making false claims for federal income tax refunds and was sentenced recently by US District Judge Dean Whipple. Logan was sentenced to five years of probation. On top of that, he was ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $72,680.
Commenting on this case, Sybil Smith, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation said, “At the IRS, protecting taxpayer money is a matter we take extremely seriously. An integral part of the agency’s mission involves detecting and catching fraudulent tax refund claims. The object of these schemes is to defraud the government and the taxpaying public.”
It does NOT pay to cheat the IRS.
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