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Tue, June 22nd, 2021 (6 p.m.)
A Las Vegas tax advisor who for years forged waivers and discounts for customers that cost the U.S. government about $ 3 million was sentenced to one year in prison this week, according to the Nevada District Attorney’s Office.
Anita Edoria Santa Ana, 61, will spend a year and a day in federal prison followed by a year of supervised release, officials said.
At her conviction hearing on Monday, she faced up to three years in prison, according to her consent form, in which she assumed responsibility for a charge of aiding and abetting the preparation and filing of a false tax return.
The program ran from 2012 to 2018 tax years from their companies called Santana Tax Service and Silver Income Tax, officials said.
The returns requested deductions and waivers, including charitable donations and fake business and moving expenses, officials said.
In an example that prosecutors set out in the plea agreement, Santa Ana defrauded the IRS of $ 3,730 by falsely claiming about $ 8,500 in donations and exemptions for a couple on a tax form.
Overall, Santa Ana cost the IRS about $ 2.9 million in losses during the six-year period, officials said.
The federal prosecutor filed the case in February, and Santa Ana pleaded guilty the following month.
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