BOSTON — A 59-year-old Carlisle man, who owns a Chelmsford paving company, was sentenced to six months in federal prison, a year of supervised release and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine for tax fraud.
Robert Joyce, who pleaded guilty to a count of willful failure to collect and pay taxes earlier this year, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton.
Federal prosecutors said that from 2012 through at least 2014, Joyce paid a portion of the wages to employees of Allied Paving and Allied Equipment, both of Chelmsford, under the table.
Joyce used his personal bank accounts, instead of business accounts, to pay employees, and in doing so did not collect, account for, or pay the IRS income and other taxes that he was required to withhold and pay, according to a press release.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling and Joleen Simpson, acting special agent in charge of the IRS’ Criminal Investigations in Boston, said Joyce’s scheme caused the IRS to lose at least $331,060.
