Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Not Paying Employee Withheld Taxes

A Great Falls, Va., man who owns and operates several businesses has pleaded guilty to $1.8 million tax fraud, according to the Department of Justice Friday.

Between 2015 and 2021, Rick Tariq Rahim didn’t pay the IRS the taxes he withheld from his workers’ paychecks, and also did not file required quarterly employment tax returns reporting those withholdings, the government said.

Rahim also hasn’t filed a personal income tax return since 2012, even though he has earned over $34 million in gross income, the DOJ said. In total, Rahim has caused the IRS a tax loss of at least ...