Date: March 12, 2025
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov
MIAMI — Today, Jimmy Desir made his initial appearance in a federal court in Miami, Fla., for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by filing false income tax returns.
Jimmy Desir of Miramar, Florida, was arrested on an indictment charging him with 22 counts of assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns that Desir, himself, presented to the IRS using his tax preparation business, A1 Plus Financial Services, Inc., located in North Miami Beach, Fla.
According to the indictment, for several years Desir intentionally included false entries on his customers’ tax returns, such as false fuel tax credits and false education credits, as well as false Schedules C with made up business losses, all in the name of increasing his customers’ tax refunds so that he could collect higher tax preparation fees from them. The loss of revenue to the IRS is estimated at more than $2 million.
U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge Emmanuel Gomez of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, made the announcement.
The IRS-CI is investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aimee Jimenez is prosecuting this case.
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
IRS-CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a 90% federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 14 attaché posts abroad.