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Small Business Payroll Tax Credit Fraud
Business owners claimed large fraudulent Employee Retention Tax Credits and other COVID-era payroll tax credits for employees who did not exist or were not paid, then spent the refunds.
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Incident
- 2021–2025
- Published
- 2026-10-13
- Reported loss
- —
Raymond Ortiz
Business owner
- Charges
- Wire fraud · Tax fraud
- Status
- Charged
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Aliases
- —
- Incident
- 2021–2025
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Sources & provenance
- Open sourceIRS Criminal Investigation / Department of Justicegovernment