Four N.C. Women Sentenced in Tax Fraud Case
In Wilmington, N.C., four women were sentenced for their involvement in a tax fraud scheme.
Pamela D. Evans, 33, received 15 months in prison; Bertha Battle, 28, received 15 months in prison; Tasha Battle, 28, received 180 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring; and Gwendolyn P. Evans, 49, received one month in prison and up to 150 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring.
All four pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government and filing false claims.
From January 2004 to April 2004, according to the indictment, the four defendants, while employees of Independent Tax Service in Rocky Mount, N.C., made claims for refunds from the IRS by filing or causing others to file false 2003 federal income tax returns.
The four women inflated wages and/or withholdings and listed false dependants and/or false dependant information to qualify clients for the earned income credit in IRS Forms 1040 and 1040A individual tax returns. They also allegedly sold fraudulent dependent information to some clients so they would qualify for a larger refund and claimed education credits for clients who were not entitled.
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