Tax Talk

It’s Jail-Time Déjà Vu For This Business Owner!

The owner of two employee staffing companies in Maryland, Jonas Purisch, was sentenced to three years in prison for failing to pay the IRS more than two million dollars in employment taxes he collected from his employees.

Purisch withheld the taxes between 2018 and 2021 after already having been convicted in 2013 of filing a false tax return. For that crime, he was sentenced to three months in prison.

In addition to the prison sentence for failing to pay the employment (941) taxes, Purisch was ordered to pay the IRS 3.4 million dollars in restitution.

Mark Diehl is the founder and president of Diehl CPA LLC and a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Alaska. He has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in Accounting from Western Governors University. Mark has previously worked with the Minnesota Department of Revenue as a tax auditor, so he knows the audit process very well.

Diehl CPA is Alaska's expert in Tax Negotiation and Mediation.