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IRS whistleblowers and whistleblower attorneys take note: accounting firms participating in selling tax shelters were jolted by today’s announcement of the indictment of four Ernst & Young partners for tax fraud conspiracy and other federal criminal charges relating to tax shelters. <\/p>\n

The four accountants were alleged to have marketed tax shelter transactions based on fraudulent factual scenarios, through which wealthy taxpayers could eliminate or reduce the taxes paid to the IRS, according to the government’s announcement. All four persons charged had worked in E&Y’s group that developed tax shelters, initially named VIPER (“Value Ideas Produce Extraordinary Results”), and later SISG (“Strategic Income Solutions Group”), according to the government.<\/p>\n

The indictment announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York named present or former E&Y tax partners in Texas, New York, and Louisiana. Three of the four reportedly were also lawyers. The indictments allege a scheme to defraud the IRS through fraudulent tax shelters from 1998 through 2004. <\/p>\n

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