We are being audited. We have a tax attorney who prepares our taxes…?
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at
11:49 am
and we pay him 650.00 for his services. When we received our audit papers from the IRS they asked us to give proof of everything on schedule A. Most of everything on schedule A was made up by our tax attorney. We stupidly signed our taxes without really checking it out. Would the tax attorney be liable can you buy prescription drugs online without a prescription for inflating and/or putting down false information on a tax return form?
The official policy of the courts is that you had every opportunity to review your tax return before, during and after it was filed. Long before the IRS started questioning your schedule A, you could have submitted an 1040X.
You can expect to be clammed by a 20% accuracy penalty.
By the way, guess how you got caught–think about it–this jerk probably inflated the tax return of every one of his clients. As soon as one got caught, they simply pulled the returns of all of his other clients and started checking them.
Maybe to some extent..but you signed it and by signing it you agreed that everything on it was true and acurate….i dont know for sure though..never been in that situation. I would contact H&R Block or something..maybe they can help you
yes, if he was negligent (sounds like he was) then you could sue him. you could also turn him into the state bar.
And you signed this false tax return for WHAT reason?? YOU are liable for the tax. PERIOD. Your smartest approach would be to plead, "The dog ate my receipts!" and hope for the best.
While you do have a complaint against the tax attorney, pressing that complaint means that you must plead guilty to tax fraud as part of the process. That’s your call of course. He will counter that he used information that YOU provided, leaving you in a "He said, She said" situation and guess who will lose? Correct! You will!
you are responsible for any false information provided on the tax return, by signing the tax return you acknowledge that it was a true and accurate tax return.
You committed fraud, or maybe not if you can proof all you information provided on schedule A.
You may claim that tax attorney did all this. IRS will also take action against them, but you must still pay the tax due with interest and penalty.
Read http://taxipay.blogspot.com/2008/04/list-of-articles.html
You are liable for the accuracy of the return. And you are the ones who got extra money because of the false claims, so you are the ones who have to pay it back to the IRS when the claims are disallowed.
You can report him to the IRS, but unless they have other reports of his doing the same thing with other people, you’d have a hard time showing that you didn’t provide him with the false information. And YOU signed it as correct. And anyway, since you got the extra money, you will still have to pay it back, plus interest and penalties.