Man collected taxes but didn't pay up, state alleges

ST. GEORGE — A businessman was arrested Wednesday on seven second-degree felony counts of failure to remit sales taxes to the Utah State Tax Commission.

The operator of 3-H River Turf Farm, Douglas J. Holt, was charged with unlawful dealing by a fiduciary in Utah's Third District court.

Holt, 54, is alleged to have failed to remit more than $300,000 in collected sales taxes between 2004 and 2007, though the state found proof that he had collected them, said Charlie Roberts, Tax Commission spokesman.

The investigation also showed that Holt withheld payroll taxes from his employees but intentionally failed to remit at least $74,000 of them to the Tax Commission on behalf of his employees.

?— Rebecca Palmer