A Boston man was sentenced in Boston federal court Wednesday for running a tax fraud scheme in which he didn’t pay employment taxes for his temp agency, federal authorities said.
Det Tran, 62, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison with three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy said. He’ll have to pay over $2.5 million in restitution.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to collect and pay over employment taxes, Levy said.
Tran ran HTP Temp. Inc., a temp agency, from at least 2018 to 2021, Levy said.
He paid $8 million in “off the books” cash to his workers. He hid these cash wages which forced his accountant to prepare false quarterly filings to the IRS for his worker’s wages and tax withholdings from 2018 to 2021.
Tran dodged over $2.1 million in employment taxes owed to the IRS, Levy said.