My parents fired the accountant that would have been the one to file their corporate taxes. The accountant had snuck and took POA over my dad, with Alzheimer’s and dementia, while he was in the hospital, behind my mom’s back, and kept him isolated away from us for 6 months, while he ran their company as his own, under the guise of my dad’s POA. My mom was removed off the board of their company, without her knowledge, and the accountant placed the company up for sale, while attempting to have my dad placed in a nursing home, against his wishes. So much happened, it’s like something you’d see in the movies, however my dad was finally able to make his way to a hotel and call us for help. Anyway, the accountant was court ordered out of their company, and was ordered to turn over all financial records. Shortly after we got my dad home, and the POA the accountant had over him rescinded, he died. My parent’s company had sold, and it sold to the very company the accountant had found to buy it….. by the time we got my dad home, both my parents were too ill to keep it. Unbeknownst to my parents, the accountant who had done this to my dad, is the accountant for the company he had found to purchase my parents company, and he filed amended tax returns on my parents, 2 months after my dad died, using my dad’s electronic signature, without my mom’s knowledge, in the amount of about $2 million dollars, claiming “inventory”, although my parents didn’t have inventory, nor had they ever filed inventory. This accountant had been long fired as my parents corporate accountant, and their new accountants had filed taxes relating to their company prior to selling it, but this accountant snuck and amended them using my dad’s electronic signature after his death, obviously with very malicious intent. My mom has since died, and this is left with my sister and I. We have had to file extensions until we can get help from a tax attorney. Could you tell me the legality of an accountant turning in amended returns using an electronic signature of a deceased person?
