Monica Becerra refuted that she and her husband, Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra, owe more than $1 million in taxes.
The Becerras owed a combined $1.2 million from tax years 2016, 2017 and 2018, according to tax lien documents from the Internal Revenue Service issued on Feb. 17, 2022. But Monica claims the IRS mistakenly thought they hadn’t filed business taxes for Becerra Corp., which is linked to Gil’s Broiler & Manske Roll Bakery, for 2016, 2017 and 2018. She said she recently received documents from the IRS, reflecting that Becerra Corp. only owes $8,417.31 for tax year 2016 and $7,173.35 for tax year 2017.
“Recently, in the middle toward the end of October, [the IRS] realized that I guess one of our returns — even though our CPA sent it and we have the submission identification number on there saying that it was sent and received — for whatever reason they never got it,” Monica Becerra said. “Basically, in their eyes, they felt like we had not filed a business return, and so we took in all this money in the restaurant but never filed it as income. So, then I’m like, ‘that isn’t true. We did send them in.’”
