{"id":207,"date":"2019-07-17T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2019-07-17T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:20:17","slug":"any-way-you-slice-it-deli-owner-is-in-trouble-with-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/tax-situations\/any-way-you-slice-it-deli-owner-is-in-trouble-with-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Way You Slice It, Deli Owner is in Trouble with the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a deli in Hamden, CT, Raymond George, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>George, who owned Ray &amp; Mike\u2019s deli, tried to evade taxes in numerous ways between 2012-2013.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, George failed to deposit all of the cash receipts he collected from his business into his business bank account. He used a portion of the cash to fill an in-store ATM and didn\u2019t report the cash as income.<\/p>\n<p>George deposited three large checks totaling $300,000 from Ray &amp; Mike\u2019s business account to his personal investment account without reporting the funds as income, and then withdrew the funds to buy personal investment property. He was also accused of depositing a check for $25,800 from Ray &amp; Mike\u2019s lottery account into his personal investment account without reporting the income.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS states that George\u2019s underreported income for those two years totaled $638,173, resulting in a loss to the IRS of approximately $220,000 in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>George faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $440,000. He has agreed to pay back taxes of $220,663 plus penalties and interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a deli in Hamden, CT, Raymond George, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of tax evasion. George, who owned Ray &amp; Mike\u2019s deli, tried to evade taxes in numerous ways between 2012-2013. According to court documents, George failed to deposit all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}