Think 2X B4 trusting your hairdresser

[Jesse]

JohnH - I thought of you when I read this. The #1 reason you should not let your hairdresser do your taxes.

FEDERAL COURT BARS MISSISSIPPI WOMAN FROM PREPARING TAX RETURNS FOR OTHERS

..........According to the government’s complaint, Harris (who is also known as Hazel Buckley), works as a cosmetologist and has no tax training. She allegedly targeted elderly customers who receive Social Security benefits. To generate improper refunds for her customers, she allegedly reported Social Security benefits as taxable income on customers’ returns and falsely reported taxes withheld, when in fact none had been withheld; this, in turn, generated a fraudulent refund for the taxpayers............


For the rest of the story:

http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/txdv08686.htm

[taxtime]

Good Grief.

[sea-tax]

JohnH - I thought of you when I read this. The #1 reason you should not let your hairdresser do your taxes.

FEDERAL COURT BARS MISSISSIPPI WOMAN FROM PREPARING TAX RETURNS FOR OTHERS

..........According to the government’s complaint, Harris (who is also known as Hazel Buckley), works as a cosmetologist and has no tax training. She allegedly targeted elderly customers who receive Social Security benefits. To generate improper refunds for her customers, she allegedly reported Social Security benefits as taxable income on customers’ returns and falsely reported taxes withheld, when in fact none had been withheld; this, in turn, generated a fraudulent refund for the taxpayers............


For the rest of the story:

http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/txdv08686.htm

Now that there is funny! When will people learn?

[JohnH]

I wondered what happened to Aunt Hazel when all of a sudden she closed her shop in North Carolina & moved away - now I know.

[thomtax]

Yes, she is barred from preparing returns. But I did not see anywhere that there was a price to pay by her. It appears as if the gullible customers will be the ones paying the price and she will keep all the money she made doing it. This may not be the case, but it does not mention any action that will cost her in the article.

[JohnH]

I noticed that they required her to furnish her client list.
Wonder if she just turned her appointment book over to them.

I'll bet that was an interesting thing to read...

"March 11: Sally Jones - Cut, perm, 1040 prep
March 12: Alice Smith - Color, style, Estimated Tax Analysis
Apr 9 : Mary Allen - Highlights, pedicure, File Extension"

and so on.