Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Accountant 'stunned' by Hatch's IRS filing – Testimony from the tax preparer Richard Hatch scammed into producing a bogus 1040 without his Survivor winnings. This should be a warning to all of us practitioners not to ever do that, especially for someone who has been on national TV, where he won a prize for being the most devious and conniving.

"It was just for analysis," said Wallis, a key witness for the prosecution in Hatch's federal tax evasion trial. She said she took her name off the sample return and had Hatch sign a letter from her stating, "This return is not intended to be filed and is simply for your information."

- posted by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA @ 1/19/2006 06:58:00 PM Send this post: