STANWOOD — A Stanwood businessman was ordered last week to pay nearly $200,000 in payroll taxes he never collected.
Jeffrey Heckman operated Thermal Pipe Shields, a pipe insulation manufacturing and installation business, between 2008 and 2010. Heckman employed up to five people and failed to collect and submit payroll taxes, including federal income taxes and Social Security and Medicare taxes, according to court records. He also failed to alert the Internal Revenue Service that he employed workers. He didn’t submit the required paperwork showing how much he paid them.
Heckman recently pleaded guilty to a federal tax fraud charge. He will be on probation for three years. He also was sentenced to six months of home detention. The case was investigated by the IRS’s criminal division.
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