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6 03, 2015

IRS: Skimming is for Milk, Not for Tax Reporting, & Bar Owner Finds Self in Pickle

By |2020-04-06T21:09:49-04:00March 6th, 2015|Tax Crimes, tax evasion, Tax fraud, Uncategorized, understatement of income|0 Comments

This might be called the Case of the Candid Calendar. A Wisconsin bar owner was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for filing false tax returns.

Cat-laps-milk-glassAccording to court records, Jared Jerome Hart, 36, of Eau Claire, Wis., owned a tavern called The Pickle Bar. His bar accepted payments only in cash, and at the end of each day, tavern employees would place daily sales in a safe for Hart to pick up. Hart would count the cash, and then record a number for the day in his own daily calendar. Hart would then deposit only some of the cash from into the business account.

Hart gave his accountants the payroll information, bank statements, the check register and vendor invoices. From these records, which Hart knew were incomplete, the accountants created the official books of the bupicklesiness.  Hart never told his accountants about the cash he was “skimming” from the tavern, or the second set of books he was keeping at home.  Hart’s daily calendars were discovered during the execution of a search warrant at his home in June 2012.

Between 2008 and 2011, there was more than a $1 million discrepancy between the gross receipts of The Pickle Bar reflected in the books the accountants maintained and the second set of books Hart maintained at his home.

3 03, 2015

Chiropractor Adjusts Tax Return, Gets 15 Months

By |2020-02-12T14:20:16-05:00March 3rd, 2015|Income, State Tax, Tax Crimes, tax evasion, Tax fraud|0 Comments

Working on more than spines, a Pennsylvania chiropractor attempted a sort of tax decompression by manipulating and adjusting her tax return to file a 2006 federal income tax return that falsely claimed her taxable income was $89,754, when, in fact, she had taxable income of $1,151,928, and owed at least $363,566 in taxes for that year.

Unhappily for tspine-diagramhe chiropractor, Maria Giacalone-Hewson, 43, of Canadensis, Penn., who operated Canadensis Healthcare Inc. was sentenced to 15 months in prison for aiding the preparation and filing of a false federal income tax return and false statements relating to healthcare matters.

At her sentencing, Giacalone-Hewson was also ordered to pay $113,821 in taxes that she owed forthe years 2007 through 2010.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Mariani ordered that Giacalone-Hewson be supervised by a probation officer for three years following her release from prison.

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30 12, 2014

The Audacity of Tax Fraud: Promoter Sentenced to Nine Years

By |2020-02-12T14:20:17-05:00December 30th, 2014|Tax fraud|1 Comment

One enterprising criminal tax fraud promoter has put a new twist on the concept of “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” in a scheme which might be described as robbing Uncle Sam to pay citizens of the Great White North: persuading Canadian citizens to file fake United States tax forms to collect real refunds from these fraudulent claims.

A Canadian tax fraud promoter who was extradited from Canada and convicted at trial was sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud. The sentencing judge cited the “audacious nature” of his scheme.

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24 12, 2014

The Sin of Snipes, Replayed: Mayor Pleads Guilty to Failing to File Tax Return

By |2020-02-12T14:20:17-05:00December 24th, 2014|failure to file tax return, Tax, Tax Crimes, Tax fraud|0 Comments

The mayor of Mount Vernon, N.Y., just north of Manhattan, has pleaded guilty to failing to file corporate and personal income tax returns. Failing to file tax returns is the same crime for which Hollywood film star Wesley Snipes famously was convicted and for which he spent nearly three years in federal prison.

Mayor Ernest D. Davis, 76, faces up to two years in prison as a result of his plea agreement.

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21 12, 2014

Paper Faker Nabbed: $1.8 Million Phony Tax Refunds Grabbed

By |2020-02-12T14:20:17-05:00December 21st, 2014|Identity Theft, Tax Crimes, Tax fraud, Tax Refund|0 Comments

For all the fear and anxiety people suffer in the run up to April 15th and the filing of tax returns, lots of taxpayers look forward to the refund to which they are entitled from the IRS as reported in their tax return. But, imagine you were not entitled to that so desirable refund, but a refund was coming to you anyway?

It would be like Christmas in April. Imagine that (indeed, rumor has it that John Lennon’s hit song, Imagine, left out the line “Imagine all the tax refunds….”)

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