It seems only appropriate that this piece runs on tax day. It seems SCCY, the firearm company owned by Joe Roebuck, has finally come to the end of the proverbial line.
Last year, Roebuck disputed my reporting on issues facing the company. Those issues ranged from mass layoffs to a variety of tax problems. His case was convincing enough that I actually felt it necessary to correct that initial report. Today, however, it seems that my original reporting might have been premature, maybe prescient, but it was far from inaccurate.
Since March 11, tax seizure notices have been posted on each entrance to the SCCY facilities at 1800 Concept Court in Daytona Beach, Florida. Those postings indicate more than small problems between SCCY and the Volusia County tax office.
As the notice reads:
All equipment, furniture and fixtures located inside this location regardless of status (owned, leased, loaned or borrowed) are subjected to taxation and are now under a pending levy and seizure for unpaid tangible personal property taxes.
The notice goes on to caution readers that . . .
Disposal of assessed property prior to satisfaction of the tax lien is a violation of Florida Statues Chapter 818 and punishable by one year imprisonment and/or $1,000 fine.
The due and owing amount is $249,932.38 and warns readers to contact revenue recovery before proceeding.
I didn’t proceed, but I did contact Revenue Recovery in the Volusia County Tax office. I didn’t expect to be told, “There are lots of notes on this one. I will need to get the Director to speak with you.”
While I was waiting for that callback, I tried multiple times to reach someone at both numbers listed on the SCCY website. One gave repeated “no longer in service” messages. The other simply responded, “call failed.” Nothing doing from the sales@sccy.com email address, either. Unwilling to give up, I called the number for the manager who wrote last year’s closure memo to laid off workers. That was the memo I was assured was “inaccurately written.”
I’m still waiting on that callback, too.
In the mean time, texts, emails, and calls from former SCCY employees have kept coming in. Some said the company had actually been closed for months, with a few people on-hand, but no product going out the door. Others wanted to recount horror stories. We don’t report second-hand stories, but that didn’t keep people from sharing them.
Here’s what we do know, thanks to the folks at the Volusia County Tax Collector’s office.
SCCY was posted with a notice of tax levy and seizure on 3/11/25. That post was made “after the company stopped communicating with the Tax Collector’s office” regarding an “active payment agreement plan” that had been in place for the 2022 tax year.
According to Volusia County officials, SCCY made a January 2025 payment, “the first in several months.”
“That’s the last we’ve heard from the business,” they told me. “We could not reach anyone from the business. Therefore the notice was posted.” (It was also posted in the local newspaper’s tax notices.)
So what happens now? If you own a SCCY product, it’s not good news.
“Our recovery contractor,” I was told, “is currently working through the bank levy process and plans to move forward, if needed, to take inventory of all assets and equipment remaining on site if we do not recoup funds through levying a bank account.”
A cautionary note. This tax process is not irreversible. Payment can be made to stop the process. But should someone other than the owner (Roebuck) make the payment, it does not give them any rights to the tangible assets.
Volusia County is also “working with the landlord and the lender who loaned SCCY the funds to acquire all the equipment.” According to them, the lender has proposed to “pay the 2022 and 2023 taxes to clear the warrants.”
Should that happen, I’m told, “we (Volusia County) will release the equipment to them and not hold them liable for 2024.”
Owners of SCCY firearms, or dealers/distributors with their products, the message would seem to indicate that — at least for right now — are on their own.
As always, we’ll keep you posted.
My house has been flooded. So I got an extension for this year.
When my wife died. She was the one who did our taxes. So I had to take over.
The IRS doesn’t care who dies or your home was flooded. You’ve got to find your tax records. Some where.
Chris, you can request the list of documents regarding you that was provided to the IRS. In other words, you can get copies of everything provided to them from employers, banks, etc. That’s what they’ll be looking for on your tax filing.
Call the IRS and tell them which tax year(s) you want the documents for, and they’ll mail copies to you.
Sorry for your troubles, Chris.
Too funny reading this. I was at the range today and also brought along the SCCY CPX-2 to put a few rounds through it.
Bummer to hear about SCCY’s business issues. They had pretty good customer service and repair turn-around time. I should know as I sent my CPX-2 in be repaired 5 times in the last 10 years. Three times for a broken ejector, once for a broken hammer, & once for a broken firing pin (they just mailed me new firing pins after that).
Paid $150 for the gun. Spent $160 in shipping over the years to get it repaired.
Looks like Taurus will finally have a monopoly on the cheap semi-auto ghetto blaster market…