Ramara Garrett Tax Prosecution
Oct 31, 2017OUTCOME: Case Dismissed
Ramara Garrett was a local Realtor and small business owner. Her businesses paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over the years, but after she sold her business that managed short-term renta ... l properties in December of 2011, she assumed that any further tax liability would fall on the new business owner. Not so, said local prosecutor Phil Havens, who made it his mission to put Ramara Garrett behind bars for failure to pay just over $15,000.00 in taxes that were incurred by that business in 2012 (yes, the year after it was sold by our client!). The local State Attorney's Office charged Ms. Garrett with three third-degree felonies, carrying with them up to 15 years in prison, even though this type of failure to pay taxes is usually resolved with either a call from the Florida Department of Revenue giving the taxpayer an opportunity to come current or dispute the charges, or, if charges are filed, with a Pre-Trial Intervention agreement that results in the charges being ultimately dropped. Visit our website to see how, after a long legal battle, we got the charges against our client dismissed entirely.