SUBMITTED — Convenience store owner Anil Patel, 51, pleaded guilty on Dec. 11 to five felony counts of failure to collect, account for and pay over sales tax to the State of Alabama, as well as four counts of willful failure to file income tax returns. Patel was indicted by a Mobile County grand jury in March 2017 for multiple felonies arising out of his operation of convenience stores.
Patel
By Gabriel Tynes
Patel has owned and operated several convenience stores throughout the Mobile area since incorporating in Alabama in 2003. As store owner, he failed to properly report and pay over to the state sales taxes collected from customers. He also willfully failed to file returns in multiple years for the corporation under which he operated the convenience stores and his individual returns for the same years.
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