A Destrehan tax preparer and her husband face multiple felony counts of fraud and tax evasion.
The charges against Ihsia (Ee-Sha) Eugene and Tedrick Eugene, of 62 Brandon Hall in Destrehan, are the result of a joint anti-fraud investigation by the U.S. Department of Revenue and state Attorney General’s office. They are the 41st and 42nd suspects arrested since an inter-agency crackdown began two years ago in March 2013, according to the Louisiana Department of Revenue.
Investigators say that as a partner in Secure Tax Service LLC, Ihsia Eugene filed tax returns claiming fabricated business loss deductions on behalf of clients who did not own businesses or who had not sustained any business losses. The phony deductions resulted in $62,660 in fraudulent refunds.
Eugene also is accused of underreporting the income she earned from Secure Tax Service. She reported earnings of $22,000 in 2012 when bank records demonstrate she earned $84,704. And in 2013, she failed to file a tax return at all on earnings of $88,296. In all, she is suspected of evading state taxes on income of $151,000. She was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on March 10 on 11 counts of Filing or Maintaining False Public Records, 11 counts of Computer Fraud, two counts of criminal penalty for evasion of tax and one count of failure to file.
In a related case, Tedrick Eugene is charged with evading state taxes on income of $28,386 he earned from Secure Tax Service by failing to file a tax return in 2013. He was arrested and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on March 10 on one count of Criminal Penalty for Evasion of Tax and one count of Failure to File.
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