{"id":13346,"date":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-busts-wife-of-convicted-scammer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:02:46","slug":"irs-busts-wife-of-convicted-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-busts-wife-of-convicted-scammer\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS busts wife of convicted scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

www.dispatch.com \u2014 Long prison sentences are supposed to act as deterrents to would-be crooks: Try this scam, and you\u2019ll land in the pokey.<\/p>\n

So an Internal Revenue Service investigator must have been a bit surprised when he began examining dubious tax refunds and learned that a preparer under suspicion had a husband already serving an eight-year prison term for a $3.5 million tax scam.<\/p>\n

Former Westerville resident Roma L. Sims, 36, was convicted of masterminding a scheme to steal more than 500 identities and file nearly 1,000 false tax returns between 2009 and 2012. Now his wife, Kelly L. Sims, 23, has been accused of stealing identities and filing for bogus tax refunds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more about IRS busts wife of convicted scammer<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out more IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know. www.dispatch.com \u2014 Long prison sentences are supposed to act as deterrents to would-be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28916,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346\/revisions\/28916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}