A federal grand jury in Birmingham, Alabama, has indicted Gary Forrest Edwards, a Shelby County chiropractor, on fees of tax evasion, submitting false tax returns, and obstructing the IRS. Edwards, who owns Hoover Well being & Wellness Heart, is accused of failing to pay $2.4 million in self-reported taxes and trying to thwart IRS assortment efforts.
Based on the indictment, Edwards agreed in 2015 to file lacking revenue tax returns for the years 2009 by 2013. Whereas he did file these returns and reported hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in revenue, he didn’t pay any of the $2.4 million in taxes he reported owing.
The indictment additional alleges that from 2015 to 2023, when the IRS tried to gather the unpaid taxes, Edwards engaged in a number of actions to impede these efforts. These actions included transferring belongings to his spouse, submitting false details about his belongings to the IRS, submitting false tax returns, and making false statements to IRS investigators. Moreover, Edwards allegedly filed paperwork with an area court docket falsely claiming that Notices of Federal Tax Lien filed towards him by the IRS had been terminated.
If convicted, Edwards faces vital penalties. The utmost sentence for the tax evasion cost is 5 years in jail. For the obstruction cost and every cost of submitting a false tax return, the utmost sentence is three years in jail. A federal district court docket decide will decide any sentence after contemplating the U.S. Sentencing Pointers and different statutory components.