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False Tax Returns: Why CPAs and Their Clients Go to Prison

Robert Nordlander
Date & Time: All Days
Duration: 120 Minutes
Category: Banking, Insurance & Finance
Type: Recorded Webinar

Description

It is a crime to knowingly prepare a false tax return. Many return preparers are not aware of the severity of civil and criminal penalties for a false tax return. Not only can a CPA lose the ability to represent their client to the IRS, but the CPA can lose their CPA license and potentially go to prison. Every tax year, the IRS publishes various stories about how return preparers and their clients go to prison for willfully submitting false tax returns. This course will discuss the ways that the IRS investigates bad return preparers. You will also understand the difference between simple mistakes versus a criminal act. The course helps return preparers know what to do if they are being investigated for a false tax return, including if their client is under criminal investigation.

Program Content: The major topics covered in this class include:

  •  How the IRS catches bad return preparers
  •  The difference between simple mistakes and criminal acts
  •  What to do if your client is being investigated for tax crimes
  •  How to protect yourself if you are accused of preparing false tax returns

Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

  • Understand the role of IRS in investigating false tax returns
  • Know the common statutes used for prosecuting false tax returns
  • Understand how preparers of false tax returns are discovered
  • Understand the common schemes by return preparers in preparing false tax returns
  • Know the common defenses used by return preparers in shifting blame
  • Identify the steps an investigation takes from its inception to a trial
  • Know how a federal judge evaluates the criminal sentencing of a bad return preparer
  • Understand the best practices for return preparers if a false tax return is suspected
  • Review case studies of return preparers that were sent to prison

Who should attend:

Return preparers and/or CPAs

Price Details

Speaker Profile : Robert Nordlander

Robert Nordlander spent over 20 years as a special agent with IRS-Criminal Investigation. He investigated various tax crimes ranging from simple embezzlement to tax evasion using foreign trusts. He is an author, speaker, podcast host, and consultant to attorneys who need forensic accounting and criminal tax expertise. He has a CPA license, CFE certification, and MBA degree. He is the principal member of Nordlander CPA, PLLC, a boutique forensic accounting and tax resolution practice.Robert Nordlander earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at Bob Jones University. Afterward, he was part of a small CPA firm, where he prepared tax returns, conducted audits, and represented his clients with the IRS. It was during that time, he earned his CPA license, and an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He later applied to be a special agent with IRS-Criminal Investigation. During the two year hiring process, he went back to Bob Jones University to teach various accounting and tax courses.After six months of training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, his first post of duty was in Birmingham, Alabama, where he investigated tax evasion, identity theft, and false tax returns. Shortly after 9/11, he was temporarily assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate possible terrorism financing. He later transferred to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he finished the rest of his special agent career.