LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kevin Hall, a co-owner of HRS Autocare in Jessamine County, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge alleging he withheld payroll taxes from employees for years but didn’t turn the money over to the IRS, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lexington. The filing says Hall admitted the scheme ran from 2017 through the third quarter of 2024 and left the government short by $835,251.17.
Hall will plead to one count of willfully failing to collect or pay over taxes, a felony that carries up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to three years of supervised release. He also agreed to pay full restitution and acknowledged the IRS can immediately assess the debt and pursue civil fraud penalties on top of the criminal judgment, the document states.
Prosecutors wrote that Hall co-owned and operated HRS Autocare — which at times did business as HRS of Nicholasville LLC and HRS of Wilmore LLC — and made the company’s financial decisions. As the person responsible for payroll, he knew HRS had to withhold federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes from workers’ paychecks and to remit both those withholdings and the employer’s matching share to the IRS, according to the filing…