Rocky Mount Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty In $3.9M Fraud SchemeWILMINGTON, N.C. – A Rocky Mount woman, Angela Dickens, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns resulting a tax loss of approximately $3,900,000. Dickens operated Empire Tax Service, later renamed K&J Tax Service, in North Carolina. From 2017 to 2023, Dickens and at least one co‑conspirator fraudulently filed hundreds of tax returns by inflating “Other 1099 Withholding” amounts. “What a shocking abuse of trust for a tax return preparer to file hundreds of fraudulent federal income tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations is investigating the case.