John Joseph Bridge of Minnesota pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false return for his business, Fineline Lakeshore Inc. He admitted that he filed a false 2008 corporate tax return, specifically understating the amount of Fineline’s gross revenue by approximately $89,000. Bridge was one of three partners at Fineline and responsible for preparing the corporate tax return. He faces up to three years in prison.

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$2.2 billion.
That’s how much the Internal Revenue Service has collected from people who participated in a 2009 program that offered amnesty to those who came forward and disclosed money held in foreign banks.
“This dollar figure will grow in the months ahead,” IRS Commissioner Doug
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A New Jersey criminal defense attorney who has not filed a personal income tax return since 2000 admitted to committing tax crimes in connection with income he received from his law practice.
Francis Cutruzzula, 48, of River Vale, N.J., pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion and one count of failure to file a tax return.
A 1988 graduate of Seton Hall Law School, Cutruzzula was admitted to practice law in
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A Shaker Heights, Ohio, pastor was charged with six counts of willful failure to collect and pay taxes.
A criminal information alleges that Charles J. Matthews, 58, failed to pay at least $90,676 in income and FICA taxes that were withheld from employees at Cleveland’s Mount Sinai Baptist Church and Ministries from October 2005 to January 2007.
Matthews was the senior pastor at Mt. Sinai and oversaw financial affairs of the church.
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A Flint, Mich., woman was sentenced to 33 month in prison for preparing and filing false income tax returns.
Following a five-day trial, Chandra Hicks was convicted of 37 counts of preparing and filing false tax returns. According to evidence presented at trial, Hicks operated a tax preparation service called Unlimited Prosperity Tax Service in Flint, Mich., from 2005 through 2009.
During that time period Hicks prepared 37 false tax returns by
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An Anne Arundel County, Md., council member pleaded guilty to failing to file a federal income tax return.
Daryl D. Jones, 47, of Severn, Md., also admitted that he failed to file personal income tax returns for four years and quarterly business payroll tax returns for six years.
Jones operated a law office and a tavern. From 2002 to 2007, Jones knowingly failed to file four personal income tax returns. He also
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Lakecia Motley, 32, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for tax fraud and ordered to pay $676,465.49 in restitution to the IRS. At Motley’s plea and sentencing hearings, the prosecutors proved that from 2005 to 2007, she and her co-conspirators filed numerous fraudulent tax returns using stolen identity information. The United States lost a total $676,465.49 from the false tax returns.

German A. Posada, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false 2004 individual income tax return and making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Posada admitted to filing a false individual income tax return for 2004 that underreported the income from his business as a real estate agent in the Las Vegas area.
From 2003 to 2005, Posada earned commission income from International Realty and another agency.  He
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At Tax Resolution Services we admire the creativity people use to try to avoid paying taxes. If you fall into the category of “creative” accounting, we hate to kill your spirit, but we are here to let you know that the IRS has seen, and heard, it all! So although you may think you are pulling a “fast one” over the tax man, in the end, you won’t be the
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A Tallahassee, Fla., man whose business involved selling CDs and DVDs at a flea market was convicted of four counts of tax evasion from his failure to file personal tax returns for the years 2005 to 2008.
From 2005 to 2008, Lennie Fulwood Jr., 42, made cash deposits totaling more than $1.7 million, which he placed into multiple bank accounts established in Tallahassee. The majority of the cash deposits were made
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A 60-year-old general contractor in Tijeras, N.M., received the harshest sentence possible for filing a false tax return — three years in prison.
Robert A. Fout admitted that he concealed from the IRS income he made from his contracting work. Fout admitted he did not report $16,754 in income in 2005, $66,961 in 2006, $32,604 in 2007, and $322,195 in 2008.
As part of his plea agreement, Fout agreed to pay $153,416
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Unpaid payroll taxes can lead to the downfall of your business. As a business owner, you have a duty to collect the correct amount of taxes and turn them over to the IRS. When payroll taxes go unpaid, the IRS does not mess around. The man in the article below deliberately scammed the IRS of payroll taxes and he will be paying for his crime soon.
The owner and operator of
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