I browsing around the DOJ News section trying to get some data about child/human trafficking arrests/prosecutions to tie into a #SaveOurChildren/Tim Tebow FB post, and noticed a LOT of news about shutting down tax preparers in different states.
(Just an aside. We need to keep an eye on DOJ news better. There was a lot announced there that we aren't seeing anywhere.)
I would assume from the amount of news about them in different states that it was a coordinated roll-up. But why? Is there a bigger underlying story to this, e.g. no more tax preparers are going to be needed?
Here are just a few I found:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-shut-down-mississippi-return-preparer
The accountant I use has told me about the way that some of those big tax preparers make the big money is by filing 2 returns. 1 return contains the basic tax rules, and the other maximizes any returns but they get the second check sent to themselves as extra profit.
I couldn't prove this is happening, however, if there was a scam to make in that system, that would be the type of thing to try.