United States Eighth Circuit

Tax preparer's sentence for aiding in the preparation and filing of false tax returns is affirmed where, under the circumstances, the district court properly declined to reduce the government's tax loss from the fraud by the taxpayers' allegedly unclaimed capital loss deductions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2008
• Published 09/16/2008

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BYE and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David R. Mercer, Asst. Fed. Public Defender, Springfield, MO (Raymond C. Conrad, Jr., Fed. Public Defender, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas C. Bunch, Asst. U.S. Atty., Springfield, MO (John F. Wood, U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for appellee.