Tax Shelters: Ernst & Young Accounting Firm Partners Charged With Tax Fraud
Monday, June 4th, 2007Their work on questionable tax shelters has led to the indictment of 4 current and former partners of the well known accounting firm of Ernst & Young. One of the defendants, Robery Coplan was a former IRS official. While the firm itself was not charged, the four individuals were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the IRS, tax evasion, making false statements to the IRS and impeding and impairing the lawful functioning of the IRS from 1998 through 2004. That investigation had been underway since 2004. The IRS contends that the shelters were frauds that led to the diversion of billions of tax dollars from properly being paid.
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