A Monroe, North Carolina, man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to interfere with the administration of the Internal Revenue Service

According to court documents, Billy Darryl Floyd committed acts in order to obstruct and impede the IRS between October 2007 and September 2011.

Floyd filed false income tax returns, which falsely reported that his income was zero. Additionally, Floyd submitted fictitious “surety bonds” to the IRS attempting to satisfy his outstanding tax liability.

Floyd also disrupted the IRS sale of his property seized to satisfy his outstanding tax liabilities by threatening IRS employees conducting the sale and threatening to sue the buyer of the property.

At the sale, Floyd also falsely told potential buyers that the sale was illegal and that they would not receive good title to the property. IRS personnel halted the public sale of this property. Floyd’s acts caused a tax loss of approximately $170,471.

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. ordered Floyd to serve one year of supervised release and to pay $170,471 in restitution to the IRS.