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Sarasota restaurant owner pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme

Niceville.comJuly 16, 20232 Mins Read
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FLORIDA – The owner of a former Sarasota restaurant has pled guilty to failing to provide information to the Internal Revenue Service.

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United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg has announced that Karl Knocker has pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to provide information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as required by law relating to his income tax liability.

Knocker faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

According to the plea agreement and information presented at the plea hearing, Knocker owned and managed Boatyard Waterfront Bar and Grill, a restaurant in Sarasota. Beginning at least as early as August 2013, Knocker and his partner and co-owner of the restaurant, Madeline Nikolson, instituted a scheme to defraud the IRS by removing the records of daily cash sales from point-of-sale registers at the restaurant, leaving the record to consist only of credit card sales.

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The owners kept the true record of their sales and income secret and did not disclose it to the IRS, as required by the Internal Revenue Code and regulations, prosecutors said.

The two restaurant owners provided the falsified record of sales income to tax preparers who prepared both their personal and corporate tax returns for tax years 2016, 2017, and 2018. As a result, they falsified and removed any reference to approximately $726,105 in sales income from their corporate and personal tax returns for those tax years, resulting in over $100,000 of taxes due and owing on those sums of unreported income.

Nikolson previously pleaded guilty to her role in this case.  Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 1, 2023.

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The IRS-Criminal Investigation Division investigated this case. Assistant United States Attorney Jay L. Hoffer is prosecuting it.

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