Date: November 6, 2023Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov DENVER — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announces that Solomon Paul Garcia has been indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of tax evasion and four counts of failure to file a tax return. According to the indictment, from approximately 2016-2020, Garcia allegedly inflated the number of exemptions on his Internal Revenue Service Form W-4s with his various employers, causing his employers to withhold very little federal employee income tax from his wages. Garcia then allegedly failed to file federal income tax returns reporting his earned income and federal income taxes due and owing for the years under investigation. Based on information contained in the indictment, Garcia is alleged to have a tax liability to the U.S. government of more than $225,000 over the five-year period. If convicted, the charge of tax evasion carries a sentence of no more than five years imprisonment and a fine of no more than $250,000. The charge of failure to file a tax return carries a sentence of no more than one year imprisonment and a fine of no more than $100,000 for each count. This case is being investigated by IRS Criminal Investigation. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley Giles. The charges contained in the indictment are allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.
