MIFFLIN COUNTY, Pa. — A federal jury convicted a Mifflin County man of tax evasion for his years-long scheme to evade the payment of his individual income taxes and his business's employment taxes.
According to court documents and evidence presented at the four-day trial, Brandon Aumiller owned Brandon Aumiller & Associates, an insurance sales business.
For tax years 2007 and 2009 through 2011, Aumiller filed personal income tax returns reporting that he owed a total of approximately $82,311 in income taxes. He also filed employment tax returns for his business reporting that it owed approximately $24,882 in taxes for the third quarter of 2013 and the first two quarters of 2014.
Despite reporting that he and his business owed more than a total of $107,193 in taxes to the IRS, Aumiller did not pay these assessments.
When the IRS attempted to collect the taxes, Aumiller engaged in a multi-year scheme to thwart the IRS' efforts by concealing his assets in nominee bank accounts, structuring multiple real estate deals to conceal the transactions from the IRS and submitting false financial disclosure forms to the IRS that did not fully disclose his bank accounts.
Aumiller is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 4. He faces a maximum of five years in prison on each of the two counts of his conviction.