I am the owner of a company that will be soon filing for bankruptcy protection. I collected but did not remit my employees’ withheld taxes to the appropriate taxing authorities. Will the IRS get its hooks into me? Will I be held personally liable for the unremitted amount?


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I am the owner of a company that will be soon filing for bankruptcy protection. I collected but did not remit my employees’ withheld taxes to the appropriate taxing authorities. Will the IRS get its hooks into me? Will I be held personally liable for the unremitted amount?

Yes. An employer is considered a trustee of taxes collected from employees, owes a fiduciary duty to the employees, and, in effect, acts as an unpaid collection agent for the IRS.

(Reviewed 11.10.08)

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