Byron Center man owes $868,000 in taxes in evasion scheme, feds say

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Byron Center man must pay $868,000 in back taxes after not reporting income from selling scrap metal for more than a decade, federal prosecutor said.

James Phillip Scholten, 51, is to be sentenced in May 12 in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids for tax evasion.

He could be sentenced to up to five years in prison…

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