SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio doctor was sentenced Monday to 41 months in federal prison after he was found guilty on tax crimes.
Anthony P. Sertich Jr., 60, was convicted in March of 10 counts of failure to truthfully account for and pay withholding taxes and one count of tax evasion.
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Court documents revealed that Sertich failed to pay over $226,000 to the Internal Revenue Service in payroll taxes withheld from his employees’ paychecks at Advanced Artistic Facial Plastic Surgery of Texas.
Between 2002 and 2010, Sertich accrued $2,927,366 in unpaid payroll taxes penalties and interest for AAFPST and South Texas Otorhinolaryngology, federal officials said. Sertich evaded paying taxes by withholding and keeping money, which should have been paid to the IRS, and by repeatedly filing bankruptcy to take unfair advantage of the automatic stay of creditors, federal officials said.
Instead of paying payroll taxes, Sertich paid himself millions of dollars in salary, which in turn paid for personal expenses, such as a large mortgage and interest payments, real estate tax payments and alimony payments, federal officials said. Sertich filed four personal and one corporate bankruptcy petitions, all but one of which was subsequently dismissed by the court.
Sertich was also ordered to pay more than $2.9 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.