| Payroll has gotten more dangerous. | | | | fines. |
| How can payroll be dangerous? US Immigration | | | | Another business Rosenburg-Cunningham |
| and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now pursuing | | | | International, Inc., which does cleaning, and |
| criminal charges against companies. For instance a | | | | maintenance services for restaurant chains and |
| felony charge of harboring illegal aliens that can | | | | hospitality sites around the country has spawned |
| result in a 10-year prison sentence. | | | | similar charges. Here the managers have entered |
| An example is IFCO Systems of North America, | | | | guilty pleas to: harboring illegal aliens, false |
| Inc. (IFCO) which according to an informant: | | | | statements on tax returns, aiding and abetting |
| Hired workers without social security cards or | | | | unlawful employment of aliens and trafficking in |
| used other peoples | | | | means of identification. |
| Payroll employees were directed to use eight | | | | There is nothing to keep ICE from charging |
| allowances on W-4's because some Hispanic | | | | payroll employees who knowingly participate in a |
| workers were not going to file tax returns | | | | similar scheme with misdemeanor or even felony |
| The company arranged to transport illegal | | | | charges. If you work for a company that |
| workers from Texas to NY | | | | knowingly employs illegal aliens and you are related |
| The company provided housing for illegal aliens | | | | in any way to the hiring or paying of those illegal |
| and charged them rent | | | | aliens you are in jeopardy. How does five years in |
| The company transported the illegal workers back | | | | a federal penitentiary sound? |
| and forth to work. | | | | Charles J. Read, CPA has been in the payroll, |
| ICE also found the IFCO had in excess of 50% of | | | | accounting and tax business for 30 years, the last |
| the SSN's on the payroll were false or did not | | | | fifteen in private practice. |
| match to the person claiming it. Repeated notices | | | | Mr. Read is the author of "How to Start a New |
| to the company correct only a small fraction of | | | | Business." |
| the problems. | | | | To find professional payroll service at a budget |
| The result of the investigation was that seven | | | | price go to a paperless payroll company. |
| managers were arrested and charged with | | | | For a full service payroll bureau with CPA's on |
| felonies. Also 1187 illegal aliens employed by the | | | | staff visit . |
| company around the country were arrested as | | | | See an excerpt of Mr. Read's interviews from |
| well. At least six of the managers have pleaded | | | | William Shatners "Heartbeat of America" television |
| guilty to counts that start at six months in jail plus | | | | show on the web sites linked above. |