The IRS Get Downright Ugly Concerning Past Due Tax Return for D.C. Police Detective

D.C. POLICE DETECTIVE SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR TAX EVASION
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WASHINGTON – Eighteen-year veteran of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Michael C. Irving was sentenced to 14 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman in the District of Columbia, the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR) announced today. Irving, a homicide detective, was convicted in May 2008 of two counts of tax evasion for tax year 2005 following a jury trial.

According to evidence introduced at trial, Irving fraudulently arranged for his employer, the MPD, to stop withholding taxes from his paychecks for years 2003 through 2005. For those same years, Irving failed to file tax returns with the IRS and the OTR. Despite receiving wages from the MPD totaling $155,211 in 2002, $152,153 in 2003, $136,962 in 2004 and $181,913 in 2005, Irving did not pay any federal or D.C. income taxes. The total tax loss for those three years was more than $130,000.

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