Dallas-Fort Worth man is sentenced to prison in $2.8 million tax-return prep scheme
His business was Super Professional Tax Services, but Oma Ungu’s return preparation appears to have been less than proficient.
The 61-year-old Grand Prairie man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to four years and nine months in prison for his role in a $2.8 million tax-return preparation scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said.
Ungu pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to aid and assist in the preparation of a false tax return. U.S. District Judge Terry Means sentenced him in Fort Worth.
Ungu admitted that between 2013 and 2016, Super Professional Tax Services, an Arlington business he owned and operated, prepared and filed false tax returns on behalf of its clients, according to a factual resume filed in the case. Ungu personally prepared a tax return in 2015 that claimed that one of his clients had significant unreimbursed business expenses for mileage which provided the client with a substantial reduction in his taxable income, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said. Ungu knew the client was not entitled to claim a deduction for the expenses.
“When our tax laws are ignored, especially by those trained as professionals, everyone loses,” U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox wrote in a statement. “We are committed to protecting the integrity of our tax system by giving taxpayers confidence that everyone plays by the same rules. Tax return preparers who exploit their clients and the tax system to file fraudulent returns will be prosecuted and held accountable for their criminal conduct.”
Robert Poteet, a former Ungu employee, pleaded guilty in January 2019 to aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false and fraudulent tax returns and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Ungu and Poteet are liable for about $2.8 million in restitution.
