deducting mileage on Form 2106

[jainen]

Hoo, boy, you know how casual we are about those mileage claims? In U.S. v. KAMALU, a tax preparer was convicted of willful preparation of false income tax returns for deducting mileage on Form 2106. He protested, pointing out that the taxpayers hadn't even filed that form, and complaining that the IRS investigator had prejudiced the jury with testimony about the preparer's obligations that was "intentionally false" (in the words of the investigator's supervisor).

The appeals court was not in the mood, and upheld the 27 month sentence. Not that it mattered--by then the government had dragged out the process so long that he had already served his time anyway.

[ed_accountant]

Here is the link to U.S. v. KAMALU:

http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/064956.U.pdf

Very interesting... 10 counts of "Willful preparation of false income tax returns"