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A religious leader in the Turks and Caicos Islands was the nominal head of at least seven offshore shell companies that a U. S. tax protester and his clients used to evade taxes totaling $630,000 from 1998 to 2002, OffshoreAlert

A U. S.-based tax adviser who used Turks and Caicos Islands-domiciled entities to commit tax evasion was convicted by a jury on all 17 counts of an indictment at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on April 4, 2008. Lanas Evans Troxler, a licensed investment advisor and estate planner formerly of Dallas and now a resident of Lubbock, Texas, was found guilty of one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the Internal Revenue laws, four counts of attempting to evade and defeat tax, and 12 counts of assisting in the preparation and presentation of false and fraudulent tax returns. The tax loss from Troxler's activities was more than $630,000.