Dossier
COVID-19 tax credits
Coverage of COVID-19 tax credits in the Nexus archive.
- Owner of NC tax business pleads guilty to COVID-19 fraud
Nejlai Mitchell, owner of a North Carolina tax return preparation business, pleaded guilty to conspiring to prepare false tax returns that claimed fraudulent refunds based on COVID-19 tax credits. The scheme resulted in the IRS disbursing approximately $13,890,697 in fraudulent tax refund claims.