Rockville Business Topped List of Maryland's Top 50 Tax Evaders

A Rockville company is biggest tax scofflaw in the state, state tax officials said Monday.

Comptroller Peter Franchot unveiled a list of what he called the top 50 tax evaders in Maryland.

The list of 25 businesses and 25 individuals owe the state about $15 million in taxes, according to a news release.

At $2,792,629.79, Worldwide Internet Sweepstakes LLC had the largest unpaid tax bill of any business in the state, a spokeswoman for the comptroller’s office told Rockville Patch.

The data from the  Comptroller's office listed the business' address at 5576 Norbeck Rd. Suite 134 Rockville, Md. Tax records for Nevada provide a Las Vegas address for "World-Wide Internet Sweepstakes," which was registered under the name of the same businessman involved with the Rockville firm.

"These are not people simply down on their luck and unable to pay, but individuals and business owners who knowingly thumb their noses at the vast majority of Maryland taxpayers who fulfill their legal obligations to the state," Franchot said in the news release.

The state publishes the list that is made up of the largest sum of back taxes on the state’s website for six months after repeated attempts to collect the debt.

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Editor's Note: Patch Editor Tiffany Arnold contributed to this report.

Caught in the Web: Comptroller Releases Names of Top 50 Tax Evaders