Earlier this year, a federal grand jury handed down a 23 count indictment (downloads as a pdf) against Fesum Ogbazion and Kyle Wade for conspiracy and tax-related crimes. Fesum Ogbazion is the CEO and sole owner of Instant Tax Service (ITS) Financial, and his three companies: ITS Financial, Tax Tree, and TCA Financial. Wade was…
Earlier this week, a federal grand jury sitting in Dayton, Ohio, handed down a 23 count indictment (downloads as a pdf) against Fesum Ogbazion and Kyle Wade for conspiracy and tax-related crimes. Ogbazion and Wade were each charged with one count of impeding the administration of the Internal Revenue Code, one count of conspiracy to…
In a scathing 233 page ruling issued earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Black ordered Instant Tax Service (“ITS”), the fourth-largest tax preparation business in the United States, to shut down its operations. In his ruling, Judge Black wrote that he agreed with the federal government that “[t]his case presents an astonishing array…
The pool of tax preparation services just got a little smaller: a federal court judge has ordered Instant Tax Service (“ITS”), the fourth-largest tax preparation business in the United States, to stop all operations permanently for “extensive and egregious, indeed appalling” harm to taxpayers.