Updated: 10:10 PM CDT May 13, 2021
TROY, Illinois A Troy, Illinois, businessman could face up to five years in prison for payroll tax fraud.
Gary Hunsche, 54, pleaded guilty to willfully failing to pay millions in federal payroll taxes while serving as the owner-operator of a Troy-based staffing company called Unique Personnel Consultants.
“Business owners have a responsibility to withhold federal income taxes for their employees and then remit those taxes to the Internal Revenue Service,” said David Talcott, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the IRS Criminal Investigation division in the St. Louis Field Office. “Investigations of employment tax fraud is one of the priorities for IRS CI special agents, and those individuals who cheat their employees and other honest taxpayers will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”