Faced with overwhelming tax debt, more Americans than ever will be hoping to qualify for the IRS Offer in Compromise (OIC) program and save thousands of dollars in taxes, penalties and interest.
In 2007, approximately 46,000 offers were submitted to the IRS nationally and only 12,000 were accepted. This year, there will be more offers submitted this year, as well as a higher IRS acceptance rate due to the state of
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Kennedy Oduro, 32, of Denver, Colo., was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and 12 months of supervised release for aiding in the preparation of false tax returns. He was also ordered to pay $21,000 in restitution to the IRS.
Oduro was charged with willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns for the years 2003 and 2004.
He pleaded guilty to willfully aiding
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Robert E. Lehman, 57, of Indianapolis, Ind., was sentenced to eight months in prison and six months home detention following his guilty plea to making a false federal income tax return. Lehman was a personal injury lawyer. The evidence presented indicated that Lehman signed and filed false Form 1040 personal income tax returns with the IRS for the years 2002 through 2004. The returns were false in that Lehman understated
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Two Lynn, Mass., women and a man were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy and scheme to file false federal tax returns to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. Esther Arias, 30, Esther Percel, 48, and Edwin Gonzalez, 35, were sentenced to prison terms.
Arias was sentenced to 60 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, with an order of restitution to federal and
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Roger Lexin Mai was sentenced to two years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $57,481 for presenting false claims to the IRS.
Mr. Mai, 33, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of filing false claims. In pleading guilty, Mai admitted that from January to April 2003, he filed 17 false tax returns with the IRS. He purchased names
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Raymond G. Clyne, 43, of North Haven, Conn., pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false income tax return with the IRS. According to court documents, Clyne filed his tax return for 2003 and showed taxable income of $98,613.  In fact, Clyne also received a payment of $42,862.50 that he failed to report. He faces up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

The owner of Glenn Electric has been ordered to serve five years of probation and pay $300,000 to the IRS and a $10,000 fine for filing a false federal income tax return.
Robert R. Glenn III, 47, of Boise, pleaded guilty to filing a false federal income tax return for 2001 by charging personal expenses to his business. Among other things, he used a corporate credit card to pay personal expenses
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