An Oregon roofer who did business in Southwest Washington was sentenced Tuesday to a year in prison for employment tax evasion.
Philip G. Brill, 57, of Lake Oswego also was given three years of supervised release and ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Garr King in Portland to pay $314,128 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
According to court documents, Brill cheated on his employment taxes for his roofing businesses in Oregon, Kelso and Vancouver for more than 16 years. Between September 1993 and June 1994, Brill owed the IRS more than $300,000 in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.
Prosecutors said Brill evaded the IRS by setting up multiple nominee trust entities, where he hid income and assets. He also never filed federal income tax returns for those entities, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
