The owner of a North Philly pizza shop pleaded guilty Tuesday to concealing business income and misrepresenting his payroll to avoid paying more than $1.8 million in federal taxes, prosecutors said.
Cihan Calkap, the owner of Mimmo’s Pizza and Kitchen, was indicted in October 2024 following an investigation into tax forms filed with the IRS between 2015 and 2019. The restaurant at the corner of Allegheny Avenue and N. 30th Street opened in 1980 at the busy four-way intersection where Henry Avenue meets Hunting Park Avenue.
Calkap, 42, of Drexel Hill, allegedly hid the pizza shop’s earnings by not depositing cash into the store’s register, where sales would normally be recorded and the income placed in a business bank account. Instead, prosecutors said, Calkap paid himself and his employees primarily in cash to avoid reporting income and payroll…