Man Is Convicted on 13 Tax-Evasion Charges
A Redding tax resister who stopped paying personal income taxes in 1999 and quit withholding taxes from his employees’ checks in 2000 was convicted Friday of 13 criminal tax charges with a tax loss of $256,000.
Jurors acquitted Walter “Al” Thompson, 58, of a final charge of conspiring with former Internal Revenue Service special agent Joseph Banister, 41, of San Jose, who is to be tried separately in June.
Banister, a certified public accountant, has been charged with conspiring to remove Thompson’s employees from taxpayer rolls.
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