LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A Las Vegas woman was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns with the IRS and diverting portions of the resulting refunds to herself and a codefendant.
Iris Hondermann owned and operated Silver State Tax & Multiservices LLC, a tax preparation business in Las Vegas. According to court documents and statements made in court, Hondermann and a codefendant prepared tax returns for clients from approximately 2017 through 2021 that included false items, including business profits and losses, COVID-19 sick and family leave credits, and residential energy credits.
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During that period, Hondermann and her codefendant prepared false tax returns seeking more than $5 million in refunds that their clients were not entitled to receive. They also diverted more than $1.1 million in fraudulent tax refunds to bank accounts one or both of them controlled.
“By inserting false information into client tax returns and taking a share of the fraudulent refunds, Hondermann and her codefendant defrauded the government of millions for personal benefit,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Scott Brown of the IRS Criminal Investigation Phoenix Field Office. “This was a substantial theft from the U.S. Treasury and, ultimately, from every honest taxpayer.”
“The deliberate falsification of tax records and the theft of funds are severe violations of public trust and federal law,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada.
Hondermann pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the United States. Her codefendant, who admitted to filing false tax returns for clients as part of the same scheme, still awaits sentencing.
IRS Criminal Investigation investigated the case. Trial Attorneys Thomas W. Flynn and Stuart A. Wexler of the Criminal Division’s Tax Section prosecuted the case.
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