Northford Man Gets 18 Months in Prison For Failing to Pay Thousands of Dollars in Taxes

A local resident who failed to pay taxes on $640,000 in income he earned over a four-year period was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 18 months of imprisonment.

, owned and operated a home improvement business, Empire Restoration Company, which also provided roofing and snow plow services.

Ney pleaded guilty last November to one count of filing a false federal income tax return, after IRS determined he underreported his income between 2004 and 2008, officials said. Apart from the jail time, he also agreed to pay $192,671 in back taxes plus penalties and interest for the underreported funds over those four years.

Over the 2004-2008 period, federal officials said Ney took part of his income and deposited it into a passbook savings account. When it came time to file his taxes, he did not provide his tax preparers with information related to $640,581 in business income that he had deposited into three separate savings accounts.

According to a U.S. Justice Department news release, Ney underreported the actual amount of his income each year.

He claimed that in 2008 he made $529,934 and paid $28,544 in taxes, when inreality he actually grossed $771,615 and should have paid $107,377 in income taxes.