Former Certified Services CEO pleads to tax charge
By Palm Beach Business.com
FORT LAUDERDALE — The former CEO of a Fort Lauderdale-based employer services company has been sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to pay payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
Danny L. Pixler, formerly of Fort Lauderdale, was CEO of Certified Services Inc., a company that handled employer functions, including payroll services and getting workers comp insurance, for other businesses. The company would handle payroll taxes — both the employees’ and employers’ share — from the client companies.
Certified, under Pixler, routinely failed to pay the taxes to the IRS, and the client companies racked up more than $31.1 million in back taxes.
Federal Judge John G. Heyburn II, in Louisville, Ky, sentenced Pixler to 60 months in prison, to run concurrently with a previous conviction for mail and wire fraud.
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