California Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing False Returns

A Southern California man pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false tax returns for his clients, the Justice Department announced Monday.

Since 2013, Salvador Gonzalez operated Grace’s Lighthouse Resource Center Inc., a return preparation business. He directed his clients to create a phony corporation and to title their homes, cars, and other assets in the name of the corporation. He then referred those clients to an associate to prepare these sham corporation’s tax returns. The associate would provide the clients with a blank spreadsheet and request that they input their business expenses into it. At Gonzalez’s direction, the clients ...