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Welcome to the Outreach Connection for businesses page. Here you’ll find useful information and resources ready to share with your staff, clients, customers or colleagues.

Modernized e-File (MeF) Assurance Testing System (ATS) information is provided to keep you up-to-date on the latest news and status of issues.

Calculate, pay or remove the Failure to Deposit Penalty when you don’t pay employment taxes accurately or on time.

Centralized toll-free number for the EPSS e-help Desk - assistors are ready to respond to questions and issues concerning e-products.

May 13, 2022 — Carl Delano Torjagbo, aka Karl Lucius Delano, has been arrested on federal bank fraud and money laundering charges arising from a scheme to defraud a bank by obtaining a $9.5 million Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") loan in the name of a fictitious company and then allegedly using the loan proceeds to upgrade his personal lifestyle. The PPP is a federal loan program intended to help small businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic by providing them with funds to cover certain payroll costs, including benefits, interest on mortgages, rent, and utilities.

February 4, 2022 — Ercin Kalender of Alexandria, Virginia and Lizette Kalender of Alexandria, Virginia pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy in relation to tax fraud within their corporate filings and business taxes. As part of their plea agreements, the Kalenders have been ordered to pay $2,219,602 in restitution.

Au pairs are J-1 visa exchange visitors in the United States who are employed and taxed the same as household employees.

Remuneration for services paid to the employee who is a United States citizen or resident alien who performs services outside the United States for a foreign person are wages for U.S. federal income tax withholding purposes.

July 6, 2022 — Yesterday U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Ercin Kalender of Alexandria, Virginia and Lizette Kalender of Alexandria, Virginia to one year and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy related to tax fraud within their corporate filings and business taxes. Judge Xinis also ordered the Kalenders to pay restitution of $2,219,602.

The federal, state and local governments news is a periodic newsletter with information for federal tax matters for all types of government entities.