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Following is a case report taken from the October 2006 FTB Newsletter.
Orange County Man Convicted
for Unpaid Income Taxes
An Orange County man awaits sentencing after he was found guilty on five counts of felony state income tax evasion.
David D. Detar, 50, an independent salesman who worked
for numerous businesses in Orange County, was convicted of tax evasion
for failure to file state income tax returns for 1998 through 2002. At
his trial, six of his former employers testified they issued Form 1099s
to Detar. After the prosecutor submitted 35 pieces of evidence Orange
County Superior Court Judge Byron McMillan addressed Detar and said, “I can’t find one reason to not find you guilty.”
Detar failed to report more than $207,000 in income
for 1998 though 2002 state income tax returns, and owes the FTB more
than $16,000 in unpaid tax, penalties, interest, plus the cost of the
investigation.
Detar faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in state
prison. This was a joint case with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, and the FTB.
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