A Baltimore County business owner has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for employment tax crimes, the United States Department of Justice announced.
Brett Hill, of Parkton and Berlin, Maryland, was found guilty of 16 counts of willful failure to collect and pay payroll taxes, according to the DOJ.
In addition to serving 18 months in prison, he will face three years of supervised release and $658,485 in reparations to the United States.
What happened?
Hill was the CEO and president of two telecommunications companies, and he was in charge of withholding and paying federal income, Social Security, and Medicare taxes from his employees’ paychecks.
Hill was also responsible for completing quarterly tax reports and paying the company’s Social Security and Medicare taxes.
From the second quarter of 2016 to the fourth quarter of 2018, an IRS criminal investigation discovered that Hill withheld those taxes from employees at one or both of his enterprises but never paid them to the government.
According to the DOJ, Hill resulted in a total tax loss of more than $2 million.
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