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A former president of a Rogers hazardous waste management and cleanup services company recently agreed to pay the IRS $675,000 to clean up his tax bills.  

Sam Shannon Weathers and his wife, Melissa Sue Weathers, agreed to pay the IRS $391,624 for their unpaid federal tax bill for the years 2009-2014, according to the IRS lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville last year.

The IRS, though, also settled with Shannon Weathers for an additional $283,376, for taxes tied to his former company, Haz-MERT Inc. of Rogers. 

He was the company’s president and organizer and was required by law to withhold federal income taxes and other taxes and pay the IRS. 

The lawsuit said that he failed to pay those taxes between March 31, 2007 and March 31, 2009.

The filing said that he knew of the unpaid trust fund taxes but he first paid other company creditors or his personal creditors.

Founded in 1993, Haz-MERT, an Arkansas Business of the Year Award nominee in 2002, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009 and is no longer operating. 

Shannon Weathers said in his filing that he didn’t know the taxes weren’t being paid until right before the bankruptcy filing in 2009.

He said that the company lost a project around February 2007, which financially wounded the business.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks entered the judgment against the Weatherses on Sept. 15. 

An attorney for Shannon and Melissa Weathers, Kelly M. Politte, of Hall Estill Hardwick Gable Golden & Nelson of Denver, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.

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