The USA claims Refunds Now and affiliates incorrectly prepared 91 percent of the tax returns it prepared, in a random sample from 24,000 of them, in Providence, R.I., Federal Court.
Here are the defendants: Michael Brier, Jeffrey Sroufe, Esther Santiago, Maria Caroline Halog, Criselyn Rivera, Nitza Benitez, Carmen Miranda, Refunds Now Inc., RNTS Inc. aka Refunds Now Tax Service Inc., FTIRS Inc., POTIRS Inc., and IHIRS Inc.
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