Commercial Cleaning Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Failing to Pay Employment Taxes

An owner of several commercial cleaning businesses pleaded guilty Tuesday to failing to pay employment taxes.

Zenon Rotuski, 67, of Medford, pleaded guilty to five counts of failing to pay over payroll taxes in Camden federal court. According to a press release, Rotuski admitted to failing to pay over withheld taxes of $120,841 over a one year period between 2008 and 2009.

Rotuski owned and operated several commercial cleaning and maintenance businesses, including Associated Building Management Corp, American Building Management Corp, and Associated Building Maintenance Cleaning Corp. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 23.

“Business owners have a responsibility to withhold payroll taxes from their employees and remit those taxes to the Internal Revenue Service,” said I.R.S. Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Larsen. “The failure to pay over withheld taxes is a serious offense.