Accountant Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns in Connecticut

By Hana Ikramuddin
New Haven Register, Conn.
(TNS)

Aug. 29—FARMINGTON — An accountant pleaded guilty in Bridgeport Thursday to filing fraudulent tax returns for multiple years after failing to report $1.4 million in income, federal officials said.

Mark Legowski, 60, a self-employed accountant who did work filing tax returns in Farmington, underreported gross receipts from 2015 to 2017 as part of an effort to reduce his income tax liability, according to a news release from the U. S Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut.

The IRS lost out on $499,289 because of the failure to report over that span, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, and Legowski has agreed to pay the agency pack along with interest and other penalties.

Legowski prepared tax returns for between 400 and 500 individual clients, 50-60 businesses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, and he excluded some customer payments from his personal income tax returns.

In 2017, Legowski reported his taxable income as $56,060, failing to report an extra $496,808 in income, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Legowski was released on a $50,000 bond, pending his sentencing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Legowski is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 25, it said, and faces a maximum term of three years in prison.

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