NEWS RELEASE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE Public Affairs Office Contact: Danny Brazell Phone (803) 898-5464 Email: brazeld@sctax.org ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 30, 2004 S.C. Department of Revenue charges Georgia resident with tax evasion A Georgia resident employed at South Carolina’s Savannah River Plant in Aiken is in jail today after South Carolina Department of Revenue investigators charged her with income tax evasion. Charlotte Johnson, a resident of Martinez, Ga., is being held at the Richland County Detention Center pending a bond hearing after DOR investigators charged her with three counts of state income tax evasion. Johnson is accused of filing a fraudulent W-4 withholding certificate with her employer illegally exempting her from having state income taxes withheld from her wages from 2000 – 2002. She also is accused of failing to file state income tax returns for those same years. The Department estimates Johnson had taxable income during the three years totaling more than $153,260. Johnson is facing up to 15 years in prison and fines of up to $30,000 if convicted of all the charges. ### |
