Phoenix Phan, 63, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $890,000 for filing false tax information for herself and hundreds of clients.
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Syracuse, NY Phoenix Phan, of Syracuse, pled guilty today to filing a false tax return for herself and to aiding and abetting the filing of a false tax return for a client. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas Fattorusso, Acting Special Agent in Charge, New York Field Office, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
As part of her guilty plea, Phan admitted that she failed to report gross receipts on her personal income tax returns for tax years 2013-2017. She also admitted that she aided and assisted others in filing false federal income tax returns during the same time period, including by falsely reporting: