Man in Washington Guilty for Federal Tax Evasion Charge
A man from Washington pleaded guilty this week to federal charges, as he tried to avoid paying income taxes. With the help of the IRS, the man’s crimes were discovered and will be justified.
The guilty man from Washington is 46 year old Peter Ian Turner, who was last recorded to be living in Washington. He pleaded guilty earlier this week in the United States District Court for attempted federal income tax evasion. Turner will now face up to five years in prison, which will be decided upon in his sentence on May 15 by Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm.
According to the reports, the actual account is only for the year 2000. However, he accepted a 21-page plea agreement that was filed in the U.S. District Court, stating that he is required to file corrected tax returns from the year 2004 all the way through 2009 or at least provide substantial reasoning and evidence that those years were filed appropriately and according to the law.
From the reports given, Turner was a pharmacist since 1990 and worked as one until at least the year 2010, according to his plea agreement. At the start of 2000, Turner had stopped filing tax returns to the IRS. Additionally, according to his plea agreement, he attempted to hide the amount of money he made by putting that money, in addition to his property, in the names of acquaintances.
As of now, Turner remains free on bond until his sentence hearing comes up.
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Bill in Consideration Will Allow Government to Fire Federal Tax Cheats
There has been a legislation that was reintroduced this week by a House lawmaker that will allow the government to fire federal employees that do not pay their taxes.
This same legislation was passed by the house this past summer in a bipartisan vote; however, the legislation died in the Senate. Representative Jason Chaffetz brought life to the bill and guided it through the House during the 112th Congress.
The legislation presented would be applicable to executive and legislative branch workers, in addition to those working at the Postal Service who fail to pay taxes or haven’t settled on an agreement with the government to repay their debt. This same bill will also prevent the government from hiring people with severe tax debt. Severe tax debt is defined as an outstanding debt to the federal government where a public lien had needed to be filed. Currently, Internal Revenue Service employees are the only ones that will be fired for failing to keep up with their taxes.
Chaffetz mentioned on the debate room floor that the employees who are willing to make an effort to pay back the taxes will not get fired. Looking at a report from the IRS, there have been more than 98,000 federal employees that owed over $1 billion in unpaid federal income taxes in the year 2010. In addition, retired civilians had a tax debt of about $470 million, and over 83,000 military veterans had owed close to $1.6 billion in unpaid taxes in the year 2010.
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Man in Marietta Caught for Filing False Income Tax Refunds
A man named Arnold Tobias Gervais, 34, had pleaded guilty this past Wednesday for an attempted scheme to defraud the IRS for over $3.4 million in federal income tax refunds.
The United States Attorney’s Office and the IRS are always on an aggressive search to sift out those that are cheating on taxes, as they take away from those who have to pay their fair share of taxes, as they did with Gervais.
As stated by United States Attorney Yates, Gervais was convicted for his crime in May 2008 and was given 5 years in prison by the Superior Court of Cobby Country. He was caught for submitting a fraudulent tax return, attempting to get a tax refund of over $600,000. For that charge, Gervais was incarcerated until February 26, 2010.
During his custody, Gervais worked through his wife at the time being to file a phony income tax return with the IRS for 2008, containing a claim for a payment of income tax refund of $811,073. Gervais fully knew that these claims were completely fraudulent. In addition to these false claims, he has been caught for six more false claims, dating back all the way to 2004.
All of his false tax returns claimed that there were a significant amount of wages earned from a fictitious business called “Safety Shoes and More, Inc.” that was recorded to be located in Rome, Georgia. Altogether, the total potential tax loss for the IRS was tallied up to $3,488,135.
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