JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville woman who called herself the \u201cTax Genie\u201d is facing up to three years in federal prison after admitting she falsified hundreds of tax returns, creating more than $1.8 million in losses to the United States.<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors say Survalarie Harris, a tax preparer in Jacksonville, knowingly reported false information on returns she filed for clients, including creating fictitious businesses and inventing fake expenses. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n According to court documents, Harris\u2019s scheme stretched back as far as 2018, with investigators determining she prepared more than 900 fraudulent returns between 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n Her crimes came to light when she prepared a bogus return for an undercover IRS agent posing as a customer. <\/p>\n During that meeting, prosecutors say Harris falsely claimed the agent ran a business and fabricated losses to boost a refund of nearly $3,000 \u2014 all without asking for documentation.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n One of Harris\u2019s former clients told Action News Jax she was left owing the IRS more than $5,000 after Harris claimed she had invested thousands of dollars into her small party service business.<\/p>\n \u201cShe said that I invested like $23,000 into the business, and how much sense does that make to invest $23,000 in a business that you only profit $300?\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n The client said she is still paying back the money.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI just knew that she would eventually get what she got coming to her,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n When Action News Jax visited Tax Genie Tax Service, the doors were locked and no one answered the phone.<\/p>\n Harris pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10, and faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville woman who called herself the \u201cTax Genie\u201d is facing up to three years…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,99701,3188,723,7324,7310,7327,99699,7325,7326,99700,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-175340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-falsifying-tax-returns","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-fox30","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-fl","17":"tag-jacksonville-tax-genie","18":"tag-northeast-florida","19":"tag-southeast-georgia","20":"tag-survalarie-harris","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-wfox","28":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115091563099379602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}