Justice Department Sues to Shut Down Mississippi Tax Return Preparer for Alledgedly Overstating Tax Refunds

The United States has requested that the federal district court in Jackson, Miss., permanently bar Danee Aikens from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.

According to the complaint, Aikens prepares federal income tax returns under the name “Comprotax Service” from an office in Durant, Miss.  The complaint alleges that Aikens prepared returns that overstated income, including by reporting fictitious household help income, in order to increase the amount of her customers' claim to the Earned Income Tax Credit.

The complaint further alleges that Aikens prepared returns that falsely claimed a refundable education credit on behalf of her clients.

As alleged in the complaint, the loss to the government from Aikens’ return preparation from 2009 through 2012 could exceed $7 million.

Return preparer fraud is one of the Internal Revenue Service's Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013 which can be viewed at www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Releases-the-Dirty-Dozen-Tax-Scams-for-2013 .  In the past ten years the Justice Department's Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of unscrupulous tax-return preparers. Information about these cases is available on the Justice Department website at www.justice.gov/tax/taxpress2013.htm .

Related Materials:

United States v. Danee Aikens
Complaint for Permanent Injunction