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
Mississippi has a large number of minority population, every year at tax time they are lined up at Walmart to get their tax returns done so the can get their "refunds" . The state the minimum amount of income you can list without a W2 or 1099, and they all get multiple EIC tax credits. Depending on how many kids they claim this can total thousands of dollars. This is why they are cracking down on the preparers signing on fraudulent claims