On Feb. 19, 2014, in Buffalo, New York, Edmund J. Renaud, of Olean, New York, was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Renaud was convicted of evading the payment of taxes involving his moving companies. According to court documents, Renaud failed to pay employment taxes for businesses he ran from 2002 through 2008. Renaud ran Southern Tier Moving and Storage, Inc., in Olean until 2002, when the IRS assessed over $48,000 in unpaid federal payroll taxes. Upon shutting down that entity, Renaud opened Southern Tier Moving and Storage, LLC, where from 2002 until 2006, Renaud similarly failed to pay over $86,000 in federal payroll taxes. Renaud provided false information to the IRS about bank accounts and other assets, including a truck he had gotten as a result of accumulating “comp” credits at a casino. Renaud also provided false information to the IRS in connection with filing an Offer in Compromise, including false claims that the company was out of business, failure to identify bank accounts and failure to disclose company assets. (Source: IRS.gov)
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