Accountant Has Employer Pay His Bills IRS Catches On

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Michael Goldner, an accountant for a company in Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for tax fraud.

From 2013 to 2017 Goldner reported more than four million dollars in income and 1.8 million dollars in tax due, of which he paid less than $100,000.

From 2016 to 2020, in order to evade paying the taxes he owed, Goldner cashed his paychecks and used his employer’s bank accounts to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses. This included rent, a second home, groceries, private school and dance lessons for his child, country club dues and restitution from a prior fraud conviction for which he was on federal probation. The fraud conviction was for wire fraud and tax evasion after bilking would be investors out of millions.For 2016 and 2017 Goldner did not include any of the income from his employer on his tax returns, and he did not file returns for 2018 and 2019.

In addition to the prison sentence he was ordered to pay restitution.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][us_image image=”1015″][/vc_column][/vc_row]