I'm not a tahx guy myself, but will they really just take your word for it that tens of thousands of dollars a year (!!) going through your personal cell phone is "business expenses"? That seems ridiculously fishy.
It could be that the Paypal account he uses for WWEC is in the business' name, but his Apple iTunes account surely isn't.
He has multiple transactions with "Grass CPA" at tahx time during the leaked period.
It's not clear that Phil is claiming WWE Champions as a business expense on his tax returns though: When he first started begging for back tax money in late 2017, the amount he claimed to owe was consistent with the standard deduction only and no business deductions based on some math that actually did (note: actually's math checks out for income tax only, if the payment plans are a lumped income + payroll tax then the amount owed
is consistent with the roughly $5,000/month in business deductions). We've already established Nancy was incompetent so we have no way of knowing if she cross compared his begruptcy filing with his tax returns, and even if she did she might have seen the same inflated business expenses on both.
One other thing I'll add is the magic of semantics: If you look at the signature block for a tax preparer (in this case Grass CPA), it states "Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return, including accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge & belief, it is true, correct, & complete. Declaration of preparer (other than taxpayer) is based on all information of which preparer has any knowledge." Notice that this does
not prescribe a specific level of documentation or scrutiny and instead relies on the preparer's "knowledge and belief". This gives the accountant some amount of leeway to throw Phil under the bus if questioned - "my client plays videogames for a living, he showed me that these Paypal charges were for a videogame, I considered that adequate to sign off on the deduction" would probably be enough to get acquitted because the prosecution in a perjury case has to show that the defendant knowingly lied, not just that s/he was negligent.
I am not a lawyer or accountant so that sloppiness might be a lesser crime or grounds for disciplinary action by whatever agency regulates CPAs in Washington but it's not perjury. Depending on how much Phil is paying Grass CPA they might have done the math and figured that the money they were making from him offset the low chance + low consequences of getting caught.
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Associate B must hate their parents.
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It's not quite that dumb, from Associate "B"'s profile:
Associate “B” is in the Identity Protection Program (IPP). (WINK) In IPP, the protected limit their internet and social medial exposure. Associate “B” has been a member of the Grass CPA team for many years and an Accountant for more than two decades. Associate “B” holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from a Pac 12 University and does Accounting, Bookkeeping, Compliance Tax and payroll work for Grass CPA and its clients. Outside of Grass CPA, Associate “B” is involved in church and community service activities.
Assuming this isn't a really bad joke the Identity Protection Program is..... not a thing. There is the
witness protection program (which creates a whole new identity for participants so they don't
need to hide their names, usually because they testified against the Mafia) but apart from that the only time someone might not want to give his/her real name would be an undercover cop or intelligence agent. There is no earthly reason to redact an accountant's name, even if s/he was the recent victim of identity theft.
Edit x2: Based on Sweet Deranged Nigel's dox there is a very good chance that Associate "B" is Julie Wheeler Chopra. How do I know this, you might ask? Because Julie is the only person who has left the firm since Nigel doxed them all and Associate "B" is the only one who joined.
