Consider the following:
Under pressure or underwater on their bills, business owners may take liberties with responsibilities accorded to them by the government. This might include filing false tax returns, paying workers under the table in cash, leasing employees in a manner to avoid true payroll counts, and other types of employment and tax fraud.
Employment tax disputes are common in business, but they do not need to lead to years in prison when an idea becomes a scheme. While some business owners or operators do not get caught, oftentimes they do. The trip-up leads to an IRS criminal tax investigation or tax litigation, and a fate similar to our friends in Massachusetts and California noted above.
If you are considering or involved in filing fraudulent tax documents, rigging your payroll, or playing with payments due to the IRS, you are heading down the wrong path. An experienced criminal tax defense attorney can help you exit that avenue, find solutions to your business troubles, and work to resolve potential criminal allegations with the IRS. Not interested in prison? Make the call today.
From offices in Chicago and Cleveland, Robert J. Fedor, Esq., LLC offers strong and strategic legal representation to clients throughout the US and abroad on matters of business or offshore tax, bankruptcy, and civil or criminal audits. When you have questions about individual or business tax compliance, call us at 800-579-0997 or contact us.