Jessamine County business owner to pay over $800K in tax fraud plea agreement

JESSAMINE COUNTY, Ky. (FOX 56) — A man who owned and operated an auto repair business in central Kentucky agreed on Thursday to pay over seven years of unpaid taxes from employee wages that he allegedly withheld from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

In the agreement, the United States argued that Kevin Hall, owner of a business named HRS, which he owned and operated in Nicholasville and Wilmore, allegedly withheld federal income taxes, among various other contributions to the IRS from employee paychecks, failing to pay those to the government from 2017 to the third fiscal quarter of 2024.

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According to the US Attorney’s Office, Hall entered a guilty plea on Oct. 16, agreeing to pay $835,251.17 to the IRS before additional fines, penalties, and fees.

When sentenced, he will also have to spend up to five years in prison, with the possibility for supervised release after three years of that term has been served, per Hall’s plea agreement…

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