More Fraud Charges For Woodbridge Tax Preparer

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A Woodbridge-area tax preparer who was already indicted earlier this May for allegedly using false information to increase his clients’ tax refunds, and secretly diverting a portion of those funds into his own accounts, was hit today with 11 new tax fraud counts.

David Patterson, 37, who has a tax preparation business in the Keasbey section of Woodbridge, was charged with eight new counts of aiding and abetting in the filing of false tax returns and three counts of failure to file tax returns.

He was indicted last May with 16 counts of aiding and abetting in the filing of false tax returns. Patterson owned D&D Tax Service LLC, a tax preparation business located in Keasbey.

He allegedly prepared 53 phony tax returns on behalf of 19 clients for tax years 2010 through 2015, which resulted in a tax loss to the United States of $290,321, Middlesex County prosecutors said.

He allegedly prepared multiple fraudulent tax returns on behalf of his clients by falsifying their income, charitable contributions, employee business expenses, and education costs, all so his clients would receive higher refunds than those to which they were actually entitled, county prosecutors said. Patterson then diverted a portion of the tax refunds to bank accounts he controlled without his clients’ knowledge or consent.

He also failed to file an individual tax return and pay federal income taxes for calendar years 2013 through 2015.

If found guilty, he is facing up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. (Shutterstock photo)

Past Patch reporting: Woodbridge Tax Preparer Charged With Falsifying Tax Returns