Woman Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Files More False Refunds While Awaiting Sentencing
A Demopolis woman was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for filing more than $250,000 in false tax returns, and continued to break the law after pleading guilty last year.
Eunice F. Plummer pleaded guilty in October to eight counts of filing false tax returns for other people and three counts of attempting to evade or defeat a large portion of the income tax she owed, .U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced today.
Plummer operated a tax preparation business, Plummer Tax Services, in Birmingham from 2010 to 2014, according to her plea agreement. During that time, she routinely inflated customer tax refunds by using fraudulent information and she also substantially under-reported her own income, documents say.
Earlier this year, while awaiting sentencing, Plummer reopened her tax business under a new name – Unique Tax Services – at the same location and filed more fraudulent tax returns. At sentencing, U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler told Plummer that by continuing to break the law after pleading guilty, she showed “disdain and disrespect” to the court and called her “a thief” and “a con artist.”
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