A programming error failed to withhold income for taxes owed on the value of domestic partner health coverage.
Tesco tried and failed to withhold that payment, and another to McIlwee, while it carried out an investigation into the accounting scandal.
In April, both the chief executive and chairman of ImClone were forced to resign amid federal and internal inquiries into whether the company had improperly failed to withhold taxes on the exercise of stock options by executives.
More recently, Dr. Harlan W. Waksal, who took over from his older brother Samuel as chief executive, resigned that post on April 29 after the company acknowledged that it had failed to withhold taxes in some stock transactions by executives.
Under California law, an employer who fails to withhold taxes and turn them over is liable for as much as double the taxes plus interest and can be prosecuted for felony tax evasion.
Imagine that your employer sent you a letter just before Christmas informing you that it failed to withhold the proper amount of income to cover your 2010 tax bill, and would begin deducting that extra amount from your paycheck right after New Year's.
It has failed to withhold payment for poor performance and rarely checked that it is being correctly charged".
If they fail to agree to withhold the film's release in Pakistan, lawyers for some of the women in the film say they will seek a court injunction to prevent it being screened.
The federal government has the right to sue states that fail to comply, and to withhold aid.
While UBS admitted last week that it had failed to properly withhold American taxes on 17,000 accounts held by affluent Americans, the authorities are now investigating how the bank and its intermediaries handled taxes for an additional 35,000 accounts, according to two people briefed on the investigation.
