Defendant failed to report nearly 2 million dollars in gross receipts to the IRS Date: March 5, 2024 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov A certified nurse assistant who owns and operates a home health care company has been sentenced for underreporting his income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Patrick S. Kityo, of Waltham, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to two months in prison and one year of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $306,603 in restitution to the IRS. In August 2023, Kityo pleaded guilty to one count of aiding the preparation of a false tax return. Kityo owned and operated a home health care company named Every Step Home Care Inc. (Every Step). During the years 2016 and 2017, Every Step’s total gross receipts were at least $2 million. Kityo, however, failed to report all of Every Step’s gross receipts to his tax preparer. Instead, Kityo only reported those gross receipts that he deposited into Every Step’s business bank account and did not report those he received via checks written to Kityo personally. As a result, Kityo caused his tax preparer to underreport nearly $2 million in gross receipts and Kityo failed to pay at least $306,603 in personal income taxes. Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy and Harry Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney James R. Drabick of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit prosecuted the case.
