An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty yesterday to willfully failing to pay employment taxes withheld from his employees’ wages. According to court documents, Donald E. White was the president and owner of Power Utility Services, Inc., in Adair, Oklahoma. 

From January 2010 through December 2017,  White exercised control over the business’s affairs by (1) tracking the hours worked by employees, (2) directing the issuance of weekly paychecks to employees, (3) directing the issuance of Forms W-2 to employees, (4) directing the filing with the IRS of Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Returns (Forms 941) reporting wages paid and income and social security taxes withheld from employees’ wages and (5) directing the payment to the IRS of the withheld taxes. 

White filed a Form 941 for the first quarter of 2016, but intentionally did not pay over approximately $31,010 in taxes withheld from employees’ paychecks. White also did not pay withholdings for multiple quarters between October 2009 and December 2017. In total, he caused a tax loss to the IRS of approximately $516,021.