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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In less than a month after the voluntary offshore bank declaration amnesty deadline expired, the results are showing that tax collection efforts from once elusive off-shore account holders appears to be working. A recent Reuters News Article – America’s Rich Losing Tussle with Taxman dated September 30, revealed that since 2008, the IRS has been successful at cracking down on off-shore tax shelters and going after Swiss banks (initially) and
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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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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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A Miami contractor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for employment tax fraud.
Reynaldo Orozco was also ordered to pay $504,047 in restitution to the United States.
Orozco previously pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false employment tax return on March 22, 2011. According to court documents, from 2004 to 2007, Orozco owned and operated Rock Construction Builders Inc., a construction business located in Miami-Dade County.
Orozco admitted that he
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Ever wonder what happens to your hard-earned dollars when you give them away to a stripper?  Here’s one answer that may not please you:
Samuel J.T. Moore III, 47, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced to 78 months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $250,000.
Earlier, Moore was charged in a three-count superseding indictment with making and subscribing false income tax returns for the 2005 and 2006 calendar years and
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The Internal Revenue Service wants to know what happened to $100,000 that soap opera star Jack Scalia raised for military veterans and families of 9/11 victims.
Scalia, whose All My Children character had a relationship Susan Lucci’s on the show, raised the money through two nonprofit organizations, including one called 9-11-01 Lest We Forget.
The IRS pulled 9-11-01 Lest We Forget’s tax-exempt status after the organization did not file any tax returns.
For
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I wrote a guest post this week called What Taxpayers Can Learn From Celebrity Tax Evasion on Daniel Stoica’s Accounting Professional blog.
I share celebrity tax evasion cases to help reiterate that delinquent tax problems happen to many people.  And it is important to remember that the IRS does not discriminate – their goal is to collect overdue taxes from everyone, celebrities included.
In the What Taxpayers Can Learn From Celebrity Tax
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Cheating on taxes gets you nowhere but behind bars. Another tax fraud case, highlighted below, proves the IRS is always watching!
Two Alabama women have been sentenced for their role in a conspiracy to file false claims for tax refunds.
Betty Washington, of Montgomery County, Ala., was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1.4 million. Wendy Delbridge, also of Montgomery County, was
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Sometimes when a person is guilty of tax evasion, the IRS may assume their spouse (or ex-spouse) is also guilty through association.  In certain cases, the IRS has found that some spouses truly are innocent of their partner’s actions.  For this reason, the IRS set up the Innocent Spouse Claim program whereby a spouse may not be held responsible to pay the IRS back, but that is only if they
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