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For 2018-2020, for example, Thibodeau reported on her returns that the business earned a total of $35,000 in gross receipts when it actually earned nearly $1.7 million.Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. Most of her clients were elderly individuals who needed frequent in-home health care assistance. Updated September 18, 2025 Topic Tax Component Tax Division announcement Number: 25-968. Specifically, Thibodeau required clients to pay her in checks made payable to cash. To perform the work, Thibodeau hired caregivers and paid them using an under-the-table cash payroll. She did this to conceal the wages
paid to the caretakers and her own income.On Thibodeau’s individual income tax returns, Thibodeau significantly underreported the income she and her business earned. A U.S. Thibodeau faces a maximum of three years in prison. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.IRS Criminal Investigation is investigating the case.Trial Attorney Ezra Spiro of the Justice Department’s Tax Division is prosecuting the case. District Court Judge will determine any prison term after considering the U.S. Thibodeau cashed the checks, kept a portion of the cash as her own income, and paid the remainder to the caregivers
without withholding any Social Security, Medicare, or federal income taxes from the caregivers’ wages as required by law. announcement New Hampshire Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return Thursday, September 18, 2025 Share Facebook X LinkedIn Email For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Defendant Concealed Over $1M in Gross Receipts by Using an Under-the-Table Cash Payroll A New Hampshire woman entered a guilty plea yesterday to filing a false tax return.The following is court filings state and statements made in court: Denise Thibodeau, of Berlin, owned and operated North Country Angels, a