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Austin, Texas: Mathews Chacko pleaded guilty to conspiring with employees to defraud the United States by filing false federal tax returns for clients between January 2019 and October 2022.Chacko is the third Texas tax preparer who has pleaded guilty in a sweeping refund?fraud scheme that ran for nearly four years, admitting he conspired with employees to file federal returns with fabricated business expenses that caused millions in losses to the government.
Chacko and his co?conspirators inserted false business expenses on client returns to reduce tax liability and generate improper refunds. At times, clients did not know that false items were added to their returns.
The tax loss attributed to Chacko was more than $3.5 million but less than $9.5 million.Two co?conspirators…
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