Federal authorities have arrested Rafael Álvarez, known as “the magician,” in the tax filing world. The founder of the ATAX firm with a presence throughout New York, Álvarez has been accused of conspiring to defraud the United States government of more than $100 million.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Alvarez, 60, devised a large-scale scheme to file tens of thousands of individual tax returns with false information, with the goal of reducing his clients’ tax burden and generating millionaire profits for your company.
