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INJUNCTION HEARING SET FOR TODAY FOR ZERJAV ST. LOUIS TAX PRACTICE

August 01, 2008

A reader tells us that a hearing is set today in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on a federal suit requesting an injunction against a tax practice there. The complaint alleges spectacular practitioner abuses. The response to the complaint by the defendants, who are associated with Zerjav & Company, L.C. and Zerjav & Company, P.C., for the most part says the federal complaint is too vague to respond to. For example, the government's complaint Paragraph 93 says:

93. The Zerjav & Co. office staff refers to Tiger Zerjav as “the magician,” because the numbers on tax returns prepared by the staff are magically different after Tiger Zerjav reviews and edits the return. In one case, a Zerjav & Co. customer had a profit of $400,000 when a former staff member, who is a CPA, prepared the federal income tax return, but only a $160,000 profit after Tiger Zerjav reviewed and edited the tax return by writing down inventory

The response:

Denies the allegations of the first sentence of paragraph 93 of the complaint. Zerjav, Sr. is without information sufficient to admit or deny the allegations of the second sentence of paragraph 93 of the complaint concerning an unidentified customer and unidentified associate, and therefore denies the same.

Our prior post on this case generated a surprising amount of interest. We will follow up as events develop.

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