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Alabama Woman Enters Plea In Federal Tax Fraud Case
November 16, 2011
A Conecuh County, Alabama, woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges for her role in a tax fraud scheme operated from a business with a location in Atmore.
Linda Thomas, 58, of Repton, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. She will face up to five years when she is sentenced but is likely to receive a shorter time in prison due to a plea agreement.
Tax preparer Alice Mobley, paid $10 to $20 per person to Thomas to gather social security numbers to fraudulently use on tax returns. Those selling their information were paid $500 for adult numbers and $600 for childrens’ numbers. When Mobley’s Preyear Tax and Check Cashing in Atmore, Mobley’s home and other business locations were raided by federal agents on March 4, 2010, investigators found complete identification information on 536 people, including Social Security cards, Medicaid cards and other documents.
The Social Security numbers were used by Mobley to file false tax returns with the IRS to claim larger than deserved refunds. Court records indicate that some of the people knew the returns were fraudulent, and they paid Mobley about $900 each.
Mobley pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy, tax perjury, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Pictured above: A federal agent enters Preyear’s Tax & Check Cashing, LLC in Atmore March 4, 2010. Pictured inset: Agents search a vehicle at the business. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Alabama Woman Enters Plea In Federal Tax Fraud Case”
429SCJ
To answer your question, “We the People”. As it should be.
JP, if we did not have the IRS, who would be the muscle, for the Federal Reserve?
Imagine there was no IRS, no income tax, just the old Treasury Dept., and a tax only on what you spend. Your take home pay would be larger, the government
would be much smaller and more efficient, Everyone, including the tax free now
such as drug dealers, robbers, prostitutes, RICH people, etc., would pay taxes
on what they spend. Just like everyone else. This system would also incurage
saving money for retirement or childrens’ education as money saved would not
be taxed until spent. Including interest on that money.
With the income tax system we now have, you see fraud such as here, and loop-
holes that allow rich people to pay less than their share. I assure you, rich
congressmen are not going to raise their own taxes. They may raise taxes,
alright but loopholes allow those new taxes to tricle down to the working class
instead of them. This is why the congress will not change the tax system.