A truck driver who authorities said operated a “ghost” tax preparation business will spend years in prison for fraudulently seeking over $4 million in COVID-19 employment tax credits.
Dantavious Jackson, 39, of Union City, was sentenced to seven years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Georgia.
Jackson was also ordered to pay over $1.5 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. He operated a ghost tax preparation business, submitting tax returns without using a preparer identification number as required by federal law, authorities said…