The federal government has widened its probe into whether the nation’s No. 2 tax return preparer helped customers file fraudulent returns to get bigger refunds.One large franchisee of Jackson Hewitt Tax Services Inc. was accused of fraud two months ago, and the company hired a former
Internal Revenue Service commissioner to review the allegations.In a regulatory filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission late last week, Jackson Hewitt disclosed that the corporation itself and an unspecified number of its franchisee and company-owned stores now are being investigated by the IRS. The Parsippany-based company has 5,778 franchisee-operated offices and owns another 723 offices nationwide, for a total of 6,501.
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