NEWARK — A Warren County tax preparer was indicted Thursday on charges he filed fraudulent tax returns to get $383,000 in unwarranted refunds and scamming his clients out of $61,000, authorities said.
Brian Allen Day, of the Port Murray section of Mansfield Township, is accused of using his tax preparation businesses to fabricate and inflate expenses and deductions for customers so they could get refunds greater than what they were owed from 2013 to 2015, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.
Day, 54, also schemed from December 2011 through April 2015 to collect money from his clients by telling them they owed fictitious payments to the IRS and then pocketed the money, authorities said.
He then gave his clients fake documents from the IRS falsely stating the agency had received payments, authorities said.
A federal grand jury indicted Day on four counts of aiding and assisting in the filing of false individual income tax returns for clients and four counts of defrauding banks by misappropriating clients’ funds.
Day is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Falk in Newark federal court Thursday afternoon.
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