Owner of Arkansas tree trimming service given federal prison time for tax fraud; did not report more than $3 million in revenue
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A northwest Arkansas man was sentenced to more than a year and a half for tax fraud.
According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, 59-year-old Carlos Gonzalez of Rogers filed false tax returns that underreported the gross receipts from his tree-trimming and removal service, Charley’s Tree Service.
From 2014 to 2020, DOJ officials said Gonzalez cashed more than $3 million in customer checks instead of depositing them into the business’ bank account. The release noted that Gonzalez knew his tax return preparer relied on those bank account records for preparing the returns
Prosecutors said Gonzalez did not tell his return preparer about the cashed checks and subsequently the prepared tax returns underreported gross receipts. Officials noted this resulted in a tax loss to the Internal Revenue Service of more than $900,000.
Officials said Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison as well as ordered to serve a year of supervised release and to pay around $1.4 million restitution to the United States and Arkansas.
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