{"id":176928,"date":"2014-08-20T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=176928"},"modified":"2014-08-20T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:00:51","slug":"guam-pursuing-cases-tax-evaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-pursuing-cases-tax-evaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam pursuing cases against tax evaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAGATNA, Guam<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Despite a lack of resources and investigators, Guam territorial officials say they\u2019re pursuing cases against people who evade taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Daily News reported Monday that Revenue and Tax Director John Camacho says a case has been forwarded to the territory\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>If the attorney general moves forward, it would be the first tax fraud case pursued in Guam in more than 15 years. <\/p>\n<p>Camacho declined to comment on the specifics of the pending case or whether it involves businesses or individuals. The territory is pursuing more cases, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Carlina Charfauros, spokeswoman for the attorney general, confirmed the office received the case but declined to provide details. <\/p>\n<p>Camacho said the investigations are difficult because proving people are dodging taxes carries a high burden of proof for the government. He says, among other things, the government needs to prove it was intentional. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to prove there\u2019s multiple years involved,\u201d Camacho said. <\/p>\n<p>If the government can\u2019t put together a solid criminal case, it can also try for a civil settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP)\u2014Despite a lack of resources and investigators, Guam territorial officials say they\u2019re pursuing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,67],"class_list":["post-176928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}