Tax Preparation Industy is Prime For Fraud

Baltimore City Paper | February 12, 2008
Income-tax preparers are not regulated. In Maryland, they're not even required to be accountants, nor is there a bond or insurance requirement tax preparers must meet, as there is with consumer lenders. There is no test that needs to be taken, and there's not even a roster of preparers' names and addresses.

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