The Internal Revenue Service is demanding nearly $1.9 million from a Goldens Bridge art adviser who has allegedly accrued unpaid taxes for 14 years.
The government claims that Kim Heirston also owes penalties going back to 2008, in a complaint filed Feb. 9. in U.S. District Court in White Plains.
“Despite the notices of liabilities and demands for payments,” the complaint states, “Kim Heirston failed, neglected or refused to pay in full the liabilities.”
Heirston is the founder of Kim Heirston Art Advisory, a Lenox Hill, Manhattan firm that works with clients worldwide, according to its website, to acquire art for corporate headquarters, foundations, homes and hotels.
She owed more than $2.3 million in taxes and penalties, according to the IRS, for 12 out of 14 years from 2008 to 2021.
Collections were periodically suspended as she proposed various installment plans and compromises. Now she allegedly owes $1,867,626.
The action was filed in White Plains because Heirston maintains an address on Deer Track Lane in Goldens Bridge.
The IRS also filed a complaint in Brooklyn federal court because Heirston and her husband, Richard Evans, own a home in Bridgehampton, Suffolk County.
The Brooklyn complaint seeks to enforce federal tax liens filed against the Bridgehampton property.
The government is demanding that the home be sold: first, to pay the costs of the sale; second, to pay real estate taxes; third, to pay Heirston’s federal taxes with her portion of the proceeds.
The 1,200-square-foot “beach house” overlooking Mecox Bay is valued at about $3.75 million on real estate websites.
The feds also warned in the Brooklyn case that if Heirston files for bankruptcy protection and her debt is discharged, the United States will try to amend the complaint to accuse her of willfully attempting to defeat a tax.
Heirston did not reply to an email asking for her side of the story.
