With the recent surge in IRS enforcement, small businesses have become a major target for the government. The staggering annual $345 billion tax gap can be largely attributed to small business tax evasion; much of this has been because small businesses are difficult to enforce and many can manage to slip through the tax cracks by underreporting actual income.
Therefore, the IRS has shifted into high gears to catch and penalize
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For small business owners, it can get tricky in gloomy economic times to keep up with making payroll tax deposits to the IRS.  Oftentimes, the challenges could be simply about how to keep the lights on while still paying employees every month.
In recent months, the IRS has been pressured to close down on the $345 billion a year tax gap by going after the largest contributor of this tremendous sum
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Robert Kenneth Dromm, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was sentenced to 48 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion.
According to court records, Dromm owned Pay Plus Payroll Administrators, which collected funds from its corporate clients and agreed to file payroll tax returns with the IRS and pay to the IRS its clients’ payroll taxes. From 1999 and 2004, Dromm embezzled the funds by engineering a
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