Bradley Arant Boult Cummings filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Tennessee Middle District Court against accounting firm Lasiter & Lasiter in connection with certain employment tax credits offered to small businesses by the federal government amid COVID-19. The suit accuses the defendant of inducing plaintiff Acer Landscape Services to apply for tax credits that the business did not actually qualify for, causing it to obtain a payment of over $1.4 million fraudulently, from which the defendant received nearly $300,000 in commission. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 3:23-cv-00531, Acer Landscape Services, LLC v. Lasiter & Lasiter Inc. PC et al.

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