Ottumwa Couple Convicted Of Tax Fraud
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The pair are accused of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by preparing and filing hundreds of fraudulent tax returns.
Ottumwa, IA- An Ottumwa father and daughter are facing 60 fraudulent tax and unemployment charges following a review by a federal grand jury. Radio Iowa reports that the charges allege 47-year-old Thein Maung and his 20-year-old daughter Phyo Mi prepared and filed hundreds of fraudulent tax returns for immigrants who had little or no ability to read or speak English. They would collect a cash fee and would tack on fraudulent energy credits and deductions to the returns and have money deposited into bank accounts they had access to. The charges allege the two received more than $140,000 in frau...
An audit found that about a dozen claims were paid out improperly amid the wave of unemployment at the start of the pandemic.