Seattle restaurant owner sentenced to 13 months for unpaid employment taxes
A Seattle restaurant owner was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release for willfully failing to pay more than $1.4 million in employment-related taxes.
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The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. The taxes included unemployment, Social Security, and Medicare obligations.
According to the source, some of the unpaid amounts had been withheld from employee paychecks, raising the case into a direct payroll-tax failure rather than a simple underpayment dispute. The restaurant is in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
The misconduct covered more than ten years and affected dozens of employees, according to the court announcement. No additional details about restitution, a plea, or other penalties were included in the source.
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