City Charges me with Grand Theft - for tax violation!!

What is the name of your state? Ohio

I filed every single employer tax return but never paid any of the "withheld amounts" (they never really existed..I was lucky to make "net payroll").

After a search warrant was executed, all of my business files and computers siezed and held for 4 months (never even glanced at), I was charged (cited, really) with a violation of the "Municipal Income Tax Code": violation of "collection at source", a misdemanor.

Once my attorneys (I think) told the prosecution (Local Law Firm) that I intended to plead guilty, the city dropped the charges, sent them to the county where I was charged with a felony count of "Grand Theft"

It took me 18 months to have my day in court where I ultimately pled to six counts of vilation of the Municipal Income Tax Code, "collection at source"..

I own nothing, never have..it was just I was an artist (builder) not a business man.

The principal was $10,000..penalty and interest and the despicable Local Law Firm (City Prosecutor)'s "cost" made the total bout $24,000.

I owed the IRS $130,000 in the same type of taxes (941)...they accepted a more reasonable figure, given my income (never more tha $14K annually) and assets, of $2,700 in an Offer in Compromise...go figure.

I'm just wondering if anyone, anyone, anyone, has ever heard of such inanity?...

especially since now every time I'm stopped by the police it looks as if I'm a car thief, thanks the the "record" (which shows me, still, as having been arrested for "Grand Theft") I get to carry from here on out to the grave.

Anyway...that's my query...

[Snipes5]

Sounds to me like you committed the crime of failing to give the municipal government its due. So I suppose that if the amount were high enough, it could qualify as Grand Theft.

So the question would be, did you learn anything from this mess, or are you still just an "artist"?

Snipes

I dunno..I'm sure I learned more than a few things..mostly that things aren't always as they seem..my biggest crime, I think was that I didn't tell anyone of my intentions..and hacked off a prosecutor in the process..and that's a no-no..

And yeah..I guess I'm still an artist, though for a very long time I'm going to feel like just a criminal..kills me..

And for the record..they can just charge you with whatever they damn well please, whenever they damn well please..and after the fingerprints and photographs, none of the facts matter one whit..