OOB motel owner guilty of stealing sales tax
An Old Orchard Beach man has been convicted on charges of stealing sales taxes he collected while running his family motel, The Caris Landings by the Sea.
Dennis Caris was convicted of four felony counts of theft by misapplication of sales tax and failure to truthfully collect and pay over sales tax to the state, according to a press release from Attorney General William Schneider. Caris failed to respond to numerous administrative efforts by Maine Revenue Services to pay more than $30,000 in tax money he collected from customers from January 2007 to October 2009. He was sentenced to two years in jail with all but four months suspended and three years of probation. He was also ordered to pay $35,860 in tax and interest, which represents the sales tax money he stole during that period, along with sales tax money he collected this past summer, but also failed to pay over. Caris has a 1991 conviction of felony bad check writing.
This case was investigated by the Maine Revenue Services' Criminal Investigations Unit.
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