On June 23, 2016, an Administrative Judge issued a decision in which he determined that an individual's access authorization should not be restored. According to the Notification Letter, the individual had failed to file his 2013 and 2014 federal and state tax returns, while admitting that he knew he was required by law to do so. He had also stated on two QNSPs that he had not failed to file tax returns for various years, while later admitting that he should have indicated that he had failed to do so. Finally, in 2015, he stated that he was not aware that he was required to list his failure to file tax returns on his QNSP, though he had been advised to do so in 2010. The Local Security Office determined that security concerns fell under Criteria F and L for the individual’s actions. At the hearing, the individual testified that he had failed to file his tax returns because of complacency, laziness, and a pattern he had developed of filing three years after the due date. He maintained that, though he had been advised in 2010 that such behavior was against the law, and he came to understand it and filed his tax returns in a timely manner for a few years, by 2015 he had forgotten that understanding until he had another “epiphany” in April 2015. The Administrative Judge found that the individual had not resolved the concerns about his failure to follow tax laws and not reporting that failure on his 2015 QNSP.
William Schwartz - Administrative Judge