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Illinois Court Halts Tax Scheme

A federal court in Illinois has permanently barred two individuals and four companies for operating an alleged scheme to help high-income individuals avoid paying income taxes by funneling money through employee benefit plans. However, the plan was designed to provide tax-free or tax-deferred income for businesses that made from $239 million to more than $300 million in contributions to it.

The court enjoined Tracy L. Sunderlage, Linda Sunderlage and SRG International Ltd., of Nevis, West Indies, and three Illinois companies - SRG International U.S. LLC, Maven U.S. LLC and Randall Administration LLC from operating the scheme. The defendants claimed the pans provided insurance benefits to participating companies' employees but the plan provided a mechanism for the owners to avoid taxes.

Each participant's company made supposedly tax deductible payments to a benefit plan operated by Maven U.S. and Randall Administration. Contributions were then allegedly transferred to an account within a company based in Anguilla, in which they were allegedly invested until the owner terminated from the program and received the assets for his or her personal use.  Many participants owned accounts through offshore trusts established by  Tracy Sunderlage and SRG International.

Beides prohibiting the defendants  from operating or promoting any purported "welfare benefit plans",   the court also ordered them to provide the government with a list of customers and to send copies of the injunction orders to those businesses.

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