South Texas company owner pleads guilty to withholding payroll taxes for personal use

Katie Nickas, Corpus Christi Caller Times

Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:14 PM 2 min read

A South Texas concern proprietor admitted connected April 30 to failing to wage employment taxes astatine his section business, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced.

Timothy Gaines Pollard, of McCoy, Texas, owned and operated Tim Pollard Construction, a residential remodeling and obstruction installation concern successful Bishop and Kingsville, according to an indictment filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas connected March 27, 2024.

Pollard pleaded blameworthy to failing to collect, withhold oregon wage employment taxes from his employees’ paychecks from 2018 to 2022, including national income, Social Security and Medicare taxes.

A stipulation of information filed with the tribunal said that helium withheld wealth from his employees during that play but failed to wage it to the United States, arsenic the instrumentality requires, and spent the funds connected idiosyncratic expenses instead.

Specifically, during the 4th fourth of 2019, helium did not wage to the IRS payroll much than $36,700 successful taxes that helium had collected from employees.

An IRS cause spoke with Pollard successful November 2018 and enactment him connected a announcement of work to wage payroll taxes, tribunal documents showed.

During that conversation, Pollard acknowledged that helium was liable for paying taxes to the IRS and agreed to enactment existent with his payments.

While the institution withheld the due magnitude of payroll taxes from employees’ paychecks from 2018 done 2021, it failed to afloat wage retired the withheld payroll taxes to the IRS, which were owed each 4th during that period.

Beginning successful January 2019, Pollard made nary further quarterly payments of payroll taxes to the IRS and did not record employment taxation returns with the IRS, the documents showed.

In total, Pollard failed to relationship for much than $421,000 successful full taxes, according to the tribunal records.

U.S. District Judge David S. Morales volition enforce sentencing connected July 30.

Pollard faces up to 5 years successful prison, a $250,000 maximum good oregon some penalties, and could person up to 3 years of supervised merchandise aft imprisonment.

He was permitted to stay connected enslaved pending that hearing.

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