Politics & Government
Fredericksburg Man Jailed, Ordered to Pay 'Back Taxes'
Spring City Company Excavating Inc. owner failed to pay personal and business taxes.
Jimmy Holland Boyd was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison and ordered to pay more than $300,000 in back taxes, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported.
Boyd, 63, pled guilty on January 29, 2013, to failing to file personal income tax returns since 1988, according to a press release from the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The former owner of Spring City Company Excavating Inc. also admitted he failed to pay federal income and FICA taxes on wages paid to his employees between 2005 and 2009.
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Boyd was facing a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison and $250,000 in fines on the employment tax charge and 1 year in prison and $100,000 on the personal tax charge, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Health problems cited by John Lichtenstein, Boyd's attorney, may have helped garner the lighter sentence, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch.
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