{"id":210,"date":"2019-07-17T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2019-07-17T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:22:32","slug":"office-manager-helps-herself-to-employers-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/tax-situations\/office-manager-helps-herself-to-employers-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Manager  Helps Herself to  Employer\u2019s Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terra Dawn Ferguson, of New London, NC, pled guilty in Federal Court on one charge of employment tax fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was employed as the office manager for a pediatric office for approximately 24 years. It was Ferguson\u2019s responsibility to collect, account for and pay to the IRS the business\u2019 employment taxes. From 2011 to 2016, Ferguson withheld $78,937 from the employees\u2019 paychecks but failed to turn those funds over to the IRS. The employer\u2019s share of employment taxes in the amount of $35,472 was also not paid to the IRS. Instead, Ferguson used the money to pay her personal credit card bills, funded personal business ventures including a mountain cabin rental and a bar, paid for personal vacations and issued herself checks totaling $1.4 million from the business\u2019 bank account.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Ferguson tried to hide her crime by preparing false income tax returns on behalf of her employer that underreported gross receipts and inflate mortgage interest deductions. The result is a loss to the IRS of $374,101.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson faces up to five years in prison, restitution and monetary penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terra Dawn Ferguson, of New London, NC, pled guilty in Federal Court on one charge of employment tax fraud. Ferguson was employed as the office manager for a pediatric office for approximately 24 years. It was Ferguson\u2019s responsibility to collect, account for and pay to the IRS the business\u2019 employment taxes. From 2011 to 2016, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211,"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\/210"}],"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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/behrtax.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}