ATLANTA – A Georgia tax preparer from Riverdale, Ga. has been ordered to pay restitution of $204,267 to the IRS for fraud, according to IRS officials Friday morning.

U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May handed down a 12 month home confinement with an additional three years’ probation sentence to Ann Rogers for aiding in the preparation and presentation of a false and fraudulent tax return, a release said.

IRS Criminal Investigation spearheaded the investigation and Assistant U.S. Attorney Samir Kaushal prosecuted the case. The sentencing took place on Nov. 30.

“Rogers, owner of SLR Tax Inc., in Riverdale, prepared a federal tax return that included fictitious Schedule C business losses and false Schedule A deductions. The fraudulent information in the documents lowered her clients tax liability, resulting in $204,267 loss to the IRS,” the IRS statement said.

IRS Criminal Investigation recently released their FY23 Annual Report which details these statistics, as well as important partnerships and significant criminal enforcement actions from the past fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2022, and ended Sept. 30, 2023.

IRS-CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more.

IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, boasting a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.