ORLANDO, Fla. – Following a News 6 investigation into a tax preparation business accused of falsifying customers’ income tax returns, the company’s three owners have been sentenced to federal prison.
Franklin Carter, Emmanuel Almonor, and Jonathan Carrillo operated Neighborhood Advance Tax, a chain of 12 Central Florida tax preparation offices that promised to get customers the “maximum refund”.
Carrillo and Carter later opened a similar company called Taxmates in some of the same strip mall storefronts previously occupied by Neighborhood Advance Tax, prosecutors said…