{"id":6893,"date":"2022-08-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:46:26","slug":"missouri-used-car-salesman-hid-over-300000-in-commissions-from-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6893","title":{"rendered":"Missouri used car salesman hid over $300,000 in commissions from IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/use-tax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/use-tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/use-tax.jpg 200w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/use-tax-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A used car salesman from Imperial, Missouri, appeared in federal court and confessed to hiding over $300,000 in sales commissions from the IRS. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri\u00a0said Donald Benck pleaded guilty to three counts of making a false statement on an income tax return. Between 2014 and 2016, Benck recruited acquaintances to collect commissions by check, which they\u2019d cash in and give that money to Benck. His\u00a0acquaintances would then keep a small fee for themselves. The checks the acquaintances cashed add up to about $326,000 in checks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benck\u2019s employer gave 1099 forms to his acquaintances since Benck did not report the income on his tax returns or notify his tax return preparer of the commissions. According to the prosecutors, Benck underreported his income on 1040 forms for 2014-2016. Benck declined to document $31,300 of his income in the 2014 tax year, $131,400 for 2015, and $93,035 for 2016. As a result, the IRS reported a tax loss of $84,092. Benck&#8217;s sentencing is set for November 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A used car salesman from Imperial, Missouri, appeared in federal court and confessed to hiding over $300,000 in sales commissions from the IRS. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri\u00a0said Donald Benck pleaded guilty to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}