A man who worked as a tax preparer in Broward County has been ordered to close his business and is permanently barred from preparing or filing any federal tax returns as part of a civil lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sunil Ramchandani, of Cooper City, through his business AHS Income Tax Services allegedly fabricated or had errors in the majority of the thousands of returns he filed in 2022 and 2023, totaling a tax loss of more than $10 million from returns he prepared in those years alone, according to the Department of Justice and the civil complaint.
The civil complaint, filed in January, alleged that Ramchandani’s company often did not tell customers their fees and would often give them a copy of their tax return that was different from the return that was filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Money from additional refunds was diverted into bank accounts Ramchandani controlled, rather than customers’ without them knowing, the complaint said…