KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A tax preparer from Kansas City, Missouri pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return to a federal court on Wednesday morning.
Linzell Harris, 67, owned and operated the MJM Group, Inc., a tax preparation business, from 1999 through 2022. He admitted to U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs that he “willfully exaggerated and fabricated multiple deductions and credit for his clients to obtain large refunds.”
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The total tax losses faced by the IRS from Harris’s false tax returns, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Missouri , was $124,308 from tax years 2015 through 2019.
Harris prepared tax returns for at least 12 clients, resulting in at least 43 false income tax returns during that same four-year period.
The release said that Harris also assisted in preparing false tax returns when he did not file personal tax returns in 2015 and 2016 resulting in a tax loss of $60,753.