A Boston-area nurse assistant, Patrick S. Kityo, who also ran a home health care business, has been sentenced to a stint behind bars for skirting his tax responsibilities. The 43-year-old owner of Every Step Home Care Inc. was given a two-month prison sentence for underreporting his income, as the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts announced.
Kityo, of Waltham, admitted to the court he hid nearly $2 million of company revenue to avoid paying the full tab to Uncle Sam. According to his guilty plea, the health care entrepreneur instructed his tax preparer to file reports on the company’s business bank account while neglecting checks written directly to him over 2016 and 2017. Sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, Kityo also faces one year of supervised release and has been ordered to repay the IRS $306,603 in restitution.
The case was brought to light by Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy and Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in Boston, Harry Chavis, Jr. "The defendant underreported nearly $2 million in gross receipts and failed to pay at least $306,603 in personal income taxes," prosecutors said in a statement. Kityo’s evasion came at a time when Every Step Home Care Inc.'s total gross receipts were clocking in at upwards of $2 million.
A man whose work had been to provide care, Kityo now must reckon with his neglect of civic duties, not to mention the shadow it casts over his enterprise. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to one count of aiding the preparation of a false tax return. Wrapping up the prosecution, Assistant U.S. Attorney James R. Drabick of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit emphasized the gravity of Kityo's actions, although charged with the oversight of his company's financial honesty, he still fell into the all-too-common trap of tax evasion.
