Atlanta Tax Return Preparer Sentenced For Tax Fraud

Patch Staff Report

Amberula Levitt, who owned Tax Time Tax Service, a tax preparation business with multiple locations throughout metro Atlanta, has been sentenced to serve one year and nine months in federal prison for committing tax fraud on her own personal tax returns. 

Levitt, 45, of East Point, Ga., was convicted on two counts of filing false tax returns for the 2004 and 2005 tax years, after she pleaded guilty on October 29, 2013.

According to United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, the charges and other information presented in court: From 2004 through 2010, Levitt owned and operated Tax Time Tax Service (“Tax Time”). Levitt fraudulently under-reported her earnings from Tax Time on her personal tax returns. For the years 2004 through 2009, Levitt owes approximately $620,000 in back taxes to the IRS.

Levitt has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg to one year, nine months in prison to be followed by one year of supervised release, ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $620,004, and complete 100 hours of community service. 

“Individuals in the business of preparing tax returns for others should set an example of tax compliance,” said Yates in a news release. “Instead, Levitt used her knowledge and skills of the tax system defraud it. For that, she will be punished.”