A Phoenix man has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty in a scheme to prepare fraudulent tax returns.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement that Roberto De La O faces a one-year prison term for preparing 118 fraudulent Arizona individual income tax returns for tax years 2014-17.
According to the attorney general's office, the returns prepared by De La O reported falsified income and withholding amounts through fraudulent W-2 or 1099 forms issued by Red Home LLC, a shell corporation owned by De La O in Phoenix, which conducted no business.
As a result, the taxpayers illegally received higher-than-normal refunds.
