‘Magician’ Bronx-based tax preparer facing prison time for fraud

They called this Bronx-based tax preparer “the Magician,” but the Department of Justice is now calling him a fraud. 
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced on April 15 that Rafael Alvarez — owner of ATAX New York, LLC and its location in Marble Hill — was arrested charged for allegedly swindling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) out of more than $100 million in tax revenue by falsifying his clients’ tax returns from 201