A Kentucky construction company owner pleaded guilty to evading payment of $177,634 in federal income taxes due for the tax years 1999 through 2001.
Darrell Mathis, of Warren County, Kentucky, and owner of Tri-State Construction, falsely submitted an IRS Offer in Compromise form in which he concealed his personal assets, including vehicles and boats, and ownership of his business, Tri-State Construction.
Mathis concealed his ownership in the company from the IRS by
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An Alabama man was indicted for his part in a scheme to collect millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service using false tax returns.
Douglas Ervin Dent, 66, of Birmingham, Alabama, allegedly filed 20 false income tax returns in his own name and on behalf of others between April 2008 and October 2009. Dent knew that he and the other taxpayers were not entitled to the $6.2 million in refunds
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An Ohio man will spend the next 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to income tax evasion.
John W. Hufgard, 59, of Bath Township, Ohio, must also pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service of $397,659
Hufgard was the sole proprietor of Universal Service and Repair. Hufgard sold manufacturing racks to metal scrap dealers, and failed to report the proceeds on his federal income tax returns.
Hufgard concealed his scheme by
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A Wisconsin man was convicted of attempting to evade more than $430,000 in federal taxes for the years 2006 to 2008.
Kalmar Gronvall, 68, previously of Shawano, Wisc., operated an Internet business known as The Gold and Silver Exchange through which he sold gold and silver coins, as well as other precious metals. During the years 2006 to 2008, Gronvall had sales totaling more than $7 million and earned more than
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Hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg owes more than half a million dollars in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
According to a lien the government filed, Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., owes $546,270.29 in unpaid taxes for the years 2009 and 2011.
Snoop Dogg, who was discovered by rapper and record producer Dr. Dre, has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. His first album, Doggystyle, sold
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Kevin G. Attar, 51, of Hampstead, New Hampshire, was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and fined $30,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of tax evasion.
Attar was the only shareholder of Surge Industries Inc., an employee services company, a subchapter S corporation, from 1989 until March 2004, at which time he sold two-thirds of the business.
During an IRS audit, investigators found that for tax years 2003 and 2004,
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A New York financial advisor was sentenced to one year in prison for attempting to evade the payment of his taxes.
Eric J. Justin, 49, of Lancaster, N.Y., who was convicted of attempting to evade and defeat the payment of taxes, was also ordered to pay $216,295.16 in restitution.
According to court records, Justin employed several schemes to evade the payment of an individual federal tax liability including interest, penalties and fees
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A Connecticut physician was sentenced to six months in prison for tax evasion.
Faddi J. Bejjani, 56, of New Hartford, Conn., had pleaded guilty to subscribing a false income tax return for the year 2007.
From 2005 through 2008, Bejjani served as the president of his medical practice, Cedars Occupational Pain Physical and Spine, located in Utica, N.Y., and later in New Hartford.
During those years, he failed to report approximately $538,000 in
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Michael R. Tucker, 46, of Canton, Ohio, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to willful failure to pay withheld federal income taxes.  From 2004 through 2008, Tucker operated Computology and was required to pay federal income taxes that the business withheld from its employees, but he intentionally did not pay $263,188.23 from 10 quarters of withholdings from December 2005 through March 2008.

A lawyer in Port Huron, Mich., was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion.
David Douglas Black, 49, owner of Black, Black and Black law firm also was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a special assessment of $100.
According to court records, during the 2004 tax year, Black diverted income from his law firm by using checks made out to him, his wife or
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Celebrity rapper and actor Ja Rule was sentenced to 28 months in prison and ordered to pay 1.1 million dollars in unpaid taxes on Monday. Ja Rule was quoted by the Associated Press as saying; “I was a young man who made a lot of money — I’m getting a little choked up — I didn’t know how to deal with these finances, and I didn’t have people to guide
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Actor Wesley Snipes’ request for an appeal for a 3-year prison term was rejected by the Supreme Court in the beginning of June. Snipes was sentenced to prison until 2013 after his 2008 trial conviction of three misdemeanor charges of willful failure to file income tax returns from 1999 to 2001. Tax Resolution first blogged about Snipes’ IRS tax problems here.
If you owe money to the IRS, especially $25,000 or
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We blog about a lot of IRS tax cases where people try to cheat on their taxes and lose.  If you don’t want to see your name and tax case on our  tax blog, I don’t blame you!  It’s never too late – and in your best interest – to resolve your tax problems today!  Tax Resolution Services can help you so you don’t end up as another tax cheat
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Jan Van Dusen, a volunteer for a cat rescue program, recently went to battle with Tax Court to deduct expenses for the care of some 70 plus cats. The article Stray Cat Strut: Woman Beats IRS published in the Wall Street Journal outlines how Ms. Van Dusen won her case against the tax court in her argument for the deduction for over $12,000 in bills accumulated for the care of
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As we all know by now, the IRS has increased its level of scrutiny of tax payers and audits are increasing. Lara Saunders (Wall Street Journal) wrote an article called Rich Are Targeted in IRS Audit Offensive addressing how the wealthy are being audited at a rate double or triple what was seen in the previous decade.
According to Saunder’s article the wealthiest Americans are being targeted increasingly by the IRS
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