The proprietor of an Arkansas tree service enterprise has been sentenced to twenty months in jail for tax fraud after failing to report over $3 million in income.
Carlos Gonzalez, 59, of Rogers, Arkansas, was convicted of submitting false earnings tax returns that considerably underreported his enterprise earnings.
Based on court docket data, Gonzalez, the proprietor of Charley’s Tree Service, cashed greater than $3 million in buyer checks between 2014 and 2020.
As an alternative of depositing the funds into his enterprise checking account, Gonzalez withheld details about these cashed checks from his tax preparer, who relied on financial institution data to arrange his returns.
Consequently, the tax returns considerably underreported the gross receipts from Charley’s Tree Service, inflicting a tax lack of greater than $900,000 to the IRS.
Along with the jail sentence, U.S. District Courtroom Decide Timothy Brooks for the Western District of Arkansas ordered Gonzalez to serve one yr of supervised launch and to pay roughly $1.4 million in restitution to america and the State of Arkansas.
The case was introduced by Appearing Deputy Assistant Lawyer Basic Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Division’s Tax Division and U.S. Lawyer David Clay Fowlkes for the Western District of Arkansas.
The investigation was performed by IRS Legal Investigation, and the case was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Curtis Weidler and Wilson Stamm of the Tax Division, together with Assistant U.S. Lawyer Carly Marshall for the Western District of Arkansas.
