{"id":127169,"date":"2026-01-22T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127169\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:08","slug":"jacksonville-pastor-admits-tax-crime-feds-say-cost-irs-up-to-1-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127169\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville pastor admits tax crime feds say cost IRS up to $1.5M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Carn Jr. admitted to underreporting his income and filing false tax returns.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville pastor faces up to three years in federal prison after he admitted trying to duck tax obligations that could total as much as $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

Brian Carn Jr.<\/a> pleaded\u00a0guilty<\/a> Jan. 15 to endeavoring to obstruct administration of the federal tax code, court records show.<\/p>\n

Carn is pastor of\u00a0Kingdom City Church<\/a>, whose website lists locations in Jacksonville, Houston and Charlotte, N.C., but says services are not being held in Jacksonville because of upcoming construction.<\/p>\n

The church has operated in Jacksonville\u00a0since 2016<\/a>, according to its website.<\/p>\n

Carn, 37, also operates Brian Carn Ministries<\/a>, whose website reports he has \u201can international following of well over 300,000 people.\u201d An online biography page links to sites including a \u201cBCM Store\u201d<\/a> and \u201cProphet\u2019s Amazon Storefront.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0release<\/a> from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said Carn filed a tax return in 2016 that reported more than $1.4 million in income and taxes due of more than $600,000. The release said Carn didn\u2019t pay that money and filed an amended return that reduced his reported income by $1.3 million.<\/p>\n

The release said Carn hired a new accountant for the reduced return and gave the accountant a false, backdate employment agreement that showed him earning $120,000 yearly with a housing allowance of another $24,000.<\/p>\n

In the following years, Carn filed other tax returns that also underreported his income, then stopped filing tax returns at all in 2020, the release said.<\/p>\n

Carn also made a series of false statements while the Internal Revenue Service was trying to collect the back taxes, the release said. It Carn’s efforts could have cost the IRS between $550,000 and $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

No date has been set for Carn to be sentenced.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This story<\/a> was first published by our news partners, The Florida Times-Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Carn Jr. admitted to underreporting his income and filing false tax returns. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-127169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}