Contractor Charged With Filing False Tax Returns

BOSTON – The owner of a residential carpentry company was charged yesterday in connection with filing false tax returns for the company.

Marcelo De Oliveira, 39, formerly of Everett, was charged with four counts of filing false tax returns.

According to the charging documents, De Oliveira was the owner of DeOliveira Carpentry, Inc. It is alleged that from 2017 through 2020, De Oliveira cashed customer checks instead of depositing them into his business bank account and then did not report more than $3.1 million in business revenue to the Internal Revenue Service on his corporate tax returns.

The charge of filing false tax returns provides for a sentence of up to three years in prison, up to one year of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and statutes which govern the determination of a sentence in a criminal case.  

Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy and Harry Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations in Boston made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kriss Basil of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit is prosecuting the case.

The details contained in the charging document are allegations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.