Berlin twin brothers sentenced for each evading $1.8M in taxes

BERLIN, Md. – A federal judge handed down prison terms to a pair of twin brothers in connection with multi-million dollar tax-evasion crimes.

On Friday, Nov. 6, 55-year-olds Dennis March and Greg March, both of Berlin, were sentenced to six months in prison each, followed by three years of supervised release. Both men will also be required to serve 12 months of home detention as a special condition of their supervised-release term, in addition to both paying restitution of nearly $1.8 million.

According to court documents, from 2017 through Apr. 2023, the March brothers willfully evaded paying the lawful taxes they owed on their business and personal income-tax returns. During this time, the March brothers committed multiple affirmative acts in Maryland that constituted tax evasion and attempted tax evasion. In total, the March brothers each unlawfully concealed more than $4.5 million in income generated from 2017 to 2023, and each failed to pay nearly $1.8 million in taxes on that income.

Investigators found the March brothers concealed their incomes by arranging payments to a shell entity that they both controlled. This allowed the brothers to treat payments as expenses or costs of their businesses, when the payments were actually distributions of income to themselves. The brothers also failed to file numerous legally required IRS forms, including required business and personal tax returns.

In Sept. 2021, the March brothers sought to use the income generated through the tax-evasion scheme to purchase various real-estate properties jointly controlled with their business partner. Their purchases included several Florida real-estate properties, worth more than $2 million, and payments to a Florida building company for the construction of two homes on undeveloped Florida lots. From 2017 to 2022, the March brothers withdrew more than $3.5 million in cash from business bank accounts.