LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KOLO) – A former Nevada business owner has been indicted on tax and obstruction charges.
Deborah Meadows, formerly of Las Vegas, was indicted for allegedly not paying employment taxes, not filing personal tax returns and obstructing justice.
The indictment alleges that Meadows owned and operated A to Z Employment Services, a company that provided carpet, upholstery and roadside cleaning services in Nevada.
The DOJ alleges that Meadows was responsible for all financial matters related to the company, including for filing their quarterly employment tax returns and withholding Social Security, Medicare and income taxes from her employees’ wages, and for paying those funds to the IRS, as well as paying Social Security and Medicare taxes the company owned.
According to the DOJ, from at least the fourth quarter of 2018 through the fourth quarter of 2020, Meadows withheld taxes from her employees wages, but did not pay over all those taxes to the IRS. They further allege that, from 2018 to 2021, Meadows did not file her own tax returns.
As an investigation began, Meadows allegedly provided investigators with altered bank records and inaccurate tax records that prosecutors say showed that AZ-TEC Restoration LLC, another company owned and operated by Meadows, had made tax payments to the IRS when it had in fact not. They further allege that Meadows provided inaccurate individual and employment tax returns showing taxes paid to the IRS, when in fact Meadows knew at the time this did not happen.
Should Meadows be convicted, she faces a max penalty of five years in prison for each employment tax charge, a maximum penalty of one year in prison for each failure to file an individual tax charge and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each obstruction charge.
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