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Michigan Real Estate Consultant Faces Federal Prison After Pleading Guilty to Tax Offenses

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    According to a Department of Justice press release, a Michigan real estate consultant recently pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return after omitting hundreds of thousands of dollars of income. This story should remind taxpayers that willfully failing to report all items of income, overstating deductions and credits on your annual tax return can result in severe and potentially life-changing civil and criminal consequences. If you have failed to file a tax return for one or more years, or have failed to accurately complete your federal tax return by omitting items of income or inflating items of deduction or credits, it is in your best interest to consult with an experienced tax attorney to determine the best strategy to get right with the government without facing criminal tax prosecution.

    Note: As long as a taxpayer that has willfully committed tax crimes (potentially including non-filed foreign information returns coupled with affirmative evasion of U.S. income tax on offshore income) self-reports the tax fraud (including a pattern of non-filed returns) through a domestic or offshore voluntary disclosurebefore the IRS has started an audit or criminal tax investigation / prosecution, the taxpayer can ordinarily be successfully brought back into tax compliance and receive a nearly guaranteed pass on criminal tax prosecution and simultaneously often receive a break on the civil penalties that would otherwise apply. 

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    Defendant Omitted Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Income from Tax Return

    Court documents reveal that Steven A. Mills worked as a real estate consultant. Between 2012 and 2015, Mills’ real estate company, Mills Real Estate Consulting LLC, received multiple substantial payments from third parties. Instead of reporting all the payments received on his federal income tax returns, Mills only reported a portion of them. For instance, Mills’ 2014 individual income tax return failed to report over $350,000 of taxable income received in that year.

    The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced later this year and faces up to 36 months in federal prison for filing a false tax return. In addition to physical incarceration, the defendant could be sentenced to up to three years of supervised release to commence upon his release from prison. Finally, the defendant may be ordered to pay restitution to the IRS representing the total amount of tax loss caused.

    Working with a tax advisor to structure your affairs in a way to minimize taxation is not illegal. There are various strategies and methods that can be used to reduce a taxpayer’s overall tax burden thoughtfully and legally. Nonetheless, willfully omitting items of income from your federal income tax return is not one of those permissible strategies. Taxpayers are required to report all items of income on an annual basis unless the federal tax laws specifically allow for different treatment of an item of income.

    As the defendant in the case of above has likely come to understand, there can be severe consequences to willfully violating federal tax laws. If you believe that you may have failed to properly report all your income or have overstated items of deduction, you should contact a seasoned dual licensed Civil & Criminal Tax Defense Attorney & CPA to discuss your options to come back into tax compliance and avoid criminal tax prosecution. Together, you will work to establish the important facts of your situation. Then, you will develop a strategy to help mitigate some of the potentially severe consequences of a tax examination, eggshell audits, reverse eggshell audits, criminal tax investigation, or criminal tax prosecution. While you are being represented by experienced tax counsel, you won’t have to go up against the IRS or Department of Justice alone.

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