Gloria Marshall Salons Are Seized in Tax Dispute : Payroll: Seal Beach-based figure studios owe nearly $400,000, IRS says. Two facilities are in Orange County.
Internal Revenue Service agents seized eight Gloria Marshall America Inc.’s reducing salons Thursday for alleged non-payment of nearly $400,000 in payroll taxes dating back to 1991.
The studios, in Orange and Costa Mesa and six in Los Angeles County, were closed and IRS spokeswoman Judith Golden in Laguna Niguel said they will remain shuttered until the tax dispute is cleared up or the assets of the studios are sold at auction.
Officials of Gloria Marshall America Inc., which is based in Seal Beach, could not be reached for comment. The holding company previously operated at least one other studio in Westminster, but it was merged with the Costa Mesa facility within the past year. A fourth Orange County Gloria Marshall facility, listed with a Brea address in the telephone directory, apparently was closed Thursday as well but was not included in the IRS seizure.
Other seized studios are in Lakewood, West Covina, Puente Hills, Arcadia, West Los Angeles and Glendale.
Golden said customers with unexpired membership contracts should contact the Gloria Marshall America offices at 3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 410, Seal Beach, Calif. 90740.
IRS documents do not show how many employees were put out of work by the seizures or how many customers may stand to lose money on prepaid memberships.
The holding company has received at least five notices from the IRS over the past six months or more seeking payment of the delinquent employee payroll taxes, Golden said.
The federal tax agency seizes property only when a taxpayer ignores the warning notices or refuses to negotiate a repayment schedule, she said.
Lien documents filed with the Orange County recorder’s office show that Gloria Marshall America first was reported delinquent for $37,765 in withholding taxes for the fourth quarter of 1991. That amount had swelled to $385,598 by the end of the first quarter this year, according to the most recent lien, filed July 2.
