Business Assets Seized - of Dreamscapes Landscape & Irrigation, Inc.

For Immediate Release
August 19, 2009

Media Contact:
Freda Warfield - 785-296-3042

(Topeka) -- Yesterday August 18, 2009, agents from the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) and the Douglas County Sheriff's Department executed tax warrants filed in Douglas County District Court. The department seized the business assets of Dreamscapes Landscape & Irrigation, Inc., located at 2500 W 6th, Apt 305 in Lawrence, Kansas for nonpayment of State Sales and Withholding Taxes. The principal owner of Dreamscapes Landscape & Irrigation, Inc. is Paul B. Gardner. Seized assets will be sold at a public auction to pay toward delinquent taxes.

Warrant execution occurs when all other collection attempts, including multiple letters, telephone calls, letters of impending legal action, tax liens filed with the District Court of domicile to secure the debt, previous bank levies and on-site till taps are executed to bring the taxpayer into compliance have been exhausted. After several unsuccessful collection attempts, or lack of response from the taxpayer, the Department is forced to take aggressive warrant execution action of seizing assets.

The KDOR's standard practice is to continually encourage delinquent taxpayers, who are not lawfully filing or paying taxes (Sales and Withholding Taxes), to voluntarily enter into a repayment agreements. When multiple collection attempts fail the Department is forced to protect the interests of the State and employ civil actions aimed at encouraging the taxpayers to comply, such as a bank levy, a till tap, or ultimately seizure of assets.

Tax Warrants Executed:

09ST63: Withholding Tax - 1Q/07-4Q/07,AR07,1Q/08,2Q/08 - $10,476.55
09ST62: Sales Tax - 3Q/05-2Q/08 - $1,076.78

Total: $11,553.33

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