Danville woman sentenced for failure to pay taxes

Date: August 4, 2025

Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

Roanoke, VA — The former majority owner and operator of a home health care business who failed to pay over $600,000 in employment taxes was sentenced last week to three years’ probation with 12 months of home confinement.

Julia Ann McKinnis, of Danville, Virginia waived her right to be indicted and pled guilty in October 2024 to one count of willfully failing to pay taxes. McKinnis was also ordered to perform 300 hours of community service.

According to court documents, in 2007, McKinnis began operating a home health care business called Angel Wings Home Health. Since at least 2010, McKinnis has been the administrator and 90 percent owner of Angel Wings.

In 2011, the Collections Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched an investigation into Angel Wings’s failure to properly report and pay employment taxes. The investigation concluded in 2016, and Angel Wings entered into an installment agreement to pay the unpaid taxes.

However, beginning in the third quarter of 2018 and continuing through the fourth quarter of 2021, Angel Wings substantially understated its employee wages to the IRS and again failed to report and pay the employment taxes that the company owed.

C. Todd Gilbert, United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, and Kareem Carter, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, Washington, D.C. Field Office made the announcement.

The Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation investigated the case

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Scheff prosecuted the case for the United States.

IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a 90% federal conviction rate. The agency has 19 field offices located across the U.S. and 14 attaché posts abroad.