Local Business Owner Will Serve 10 Months

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The former owner of some Reno landscaping businesses has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for failing to file employment tax returns. Kyle Archie was also ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution for violating federal employment tax laws. His mother, the company bookkeeper, also was sentenced to five years’ probation and three months house arrest for failing to file employment tax returns. In all they’ll pay more than $1.2 million in restitution to the IRS.  Federal prosecutors say he admitted collecting employment taxes from his workers’ checks but failed to turn them over to the IRS in 2008. His mother admitted failing to file employment tax returns or account for the withheld taxes from 2003-09.