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November 15, 2022 — A Kansas businessman was sentenced to one year and a day in prison for his involvement in falsifying his company’s financial statements.

IR-2025-55, April 30, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers that disaster preparation season kicks off soon with National Wildfire Awareness Month in May and National Hurricane Preparedness Week, May 4-10.

May 20, 2025 — The following is according to court documents and statements made in court: Lalo Valdez and Matthew Olson, both of Northern California, operated a San Jose-based health informatics and product development company that provided clinical care and technology services to clients in healthcare and academia. Valdez was the CEO and Olson the CFO. As such, both were responsible for the company’s operations, managed its internal books and records, signed checks on behalf of the company, and hired and fired employees. Both men also were responsible for withholding Social Security, Medicare, and federal income taxes from employees’ wages and paying those funds over to the government each quarter.

IR-2022-156, August 29, 2022 — September is National Preparedness Month. With the height of hurricane season fast approaching and the ongoing threat of wildfires in many places, the Internal Revenue Service urges everyone to develop an emergency preparedness plan, or if they already have one, update it for 2022.

Feb. 7, 2025 — A Rumford man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for willfully evading the payment of employment taxes.

June 6, 2025 — A former Kent, Washington, woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to an additional twelve months and one day in prison for stealing from her new employer while awaiting sentencing for stealing from a past employer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. In 2023, Christin Guillory was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing more than $2.5 million from an Everett manufacturing company where she served as accounting manager.

May 27, 2025 — A Texas man pleaded guilty today before Magistrate Judge Richard W. Bennett for the Southern District of Texas to not reporting and paying over employment taxes that his company withheld from its employees’ paychecks.

April 7, 2025 — Richard G. Frohling, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of announced that on April 4, 2025, Douglas Larson was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for failing to pay over $1,000,000 of employment taxes he owed.

June 15, 2023 — A bookkeeper was sentenced to prison today for embezzling more than $1.35 from his employer, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger ordered Danny Dale Tremble of Conover, N.C., to serve 41 months in prison followed by three of supervised release, and to pay restitution in the amount of $1,639,659.99.

July 14, 2022 — U.S. District Judge Julie A. Robinson sentenced a former Kansas business owner to one year and one day in prison for employment tax fraud.