BOSTON (WWLP) – A man from Dorchester has been sentenced for a multi-year tax fraud scheme where he failed to pay employment taxes for his temporary employment agency.
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The Department of Justice states that 62-year-old Det Tran was sentenced to one year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution. Back in September 2024, he pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to collect and pay over-employment taxes.
Tran owned and ran HTP Temp. Inc., which is an agency that provides temporary workers for client businesses, from around 2018 to 2021. During that time, he paid $8 million in “off the books” cash wages to his employees.
By doing this, Tran caused his accountant to prepare false quarterly filings to the IRS for employee wages and tax withholdings between 2018 and 2021. As a result, Tran avoided over $2.1 million in employment taxes owed to the IRS.