"With the tax season upon us, today's guilty plea underscores the message that tax preparers have an obligation to perform their duties honestly, and when they abuse their position by filing false information that defrauds the IRS, the return will be a felony conviction like this and additional penalties," Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said while announcing the guilty plea.
According to federal prosecutors, Jacob inflated her clients' tax refunds by preparing and submitting false tax returns to the IRS that claimed fictitious expenses relating to solar water heaters and geothermal heat pumps that resulted in the clients receiving fraudulent Residential Energy Credits.
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