CPA gets 1 year in prison, loses license,<br> for filing false tax returns

PROVIDENCE – Irving Kalmer of Smithfield has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for filing four years of false tax returns in which he understated his income by a total of $313,880, according to U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente.
Kalmer, a former public accountant, previously had surrendered his professional license and paid the taxes due on the unreported income, which came to about $88,000 before interest and penalties.
He pleaded guilty in December to federal charges of filing a false tax return.
At the plea hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Reich said the government could prove that for the tax years 1999 through 2002, Kalmer had deposited into his business account only about 30 percent of the payments he received from clients. The remainder of his client checks for those years, Kalmer had cashed and failed to report on his tax returns, the prosecutor said.
Kalmer allegedly understated his income by $41,874 in 1999, $77,085 in 2000, $89,448 in 2001, and $105,473 in 2002. In his 2003 return – filed after he was contacted by an IRS criminal investigator – he reported gross income about three times as high as that he reported for 2002, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
His sentence was imposed today in U.S. District Court, Providence, by Chief Judge Mary M. Lisi, who ordered Kalmer to report to prison on July 13.