DOJ Seeks to Bar Texas Tax Preparer From Filing for Others

The Justice Department filed a complaint seeking to bar a Fort Worth, Texas-area tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the agency said Tuesday.

The complaint alleges that Ruben Gonzalez and his employees prepared over 14,000 federal income tax returns from 2021-2023 through a sole proprietorship named “Sin Barreras Income Tax,” the DOJ said.

According to the complaint, in a substantial number of these tax returns, Gonzalez and others he employed significantly overstated customers’ tax refunds by fabricating or inflating business losses, falsifying charitable donation deductions, and falsely claiming energy credits and coronavirus family sick ...