Yuma man pleads guilty to tax evasion
Dillon Fuhrman
PHOENIX (KYMA, KECY) – A Yuma man has pleaded guilty Tuesday for failure to pay employment taxes, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office District of Arizona.
The Attorney’s Office says 61-year-old Philip Kevin Clark, the owner a water company in Yuma, admitted to taking nearly $400,000 from his employees’ paychecks for taxes he failed to pay to the IRS between 2017 and 2021.
Failing to pay employment tax can have a maximum penalty of five years in prison, along with a $250,000 fine.
Clark is set to be sentenced in July 2025, the Attorney’s Office says.