IRS charges Girard contractor with paying under the table

CLEVELAND -- A Girard roofing and siding contractor has been charged with violating tax laws by paying $1.17 million in cash to himself and workers and not reporting it to the Internal Revenue Service.
Brian J. Groover, 1020 Park Circle, sole shareholder and principal officer and operator of Groover Roofing & amp; Siding, was charged with the under-the-table payments from Jan. 1, 2000, through March 4, 2005, according to Gregory White, United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
The U.S. attorney's office says Groover employed a number of workers during those years, including himself, under arrangements by which he paid all or a portion of their wages in cash with no withholding of taxes.
At the end of the year, Groover gave employees W-2s and or other tax forms showing the portion of their compensation paid by check, the U.S. attorney's office reported. Some workers' wages were not reported to the IRS at all.
Groover also filed false employment and corporate tax returns on which he reported only the wages paid by check, the office reported. The scheme caused underpayment of $178,605 in taxes during the period on unreported wages of $1.17 million.
The amount of taxes not paid ranged from $19,278 in 2000 to $62,937 in 2004.
The case was originated by the Youngstown office of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.