Tracy Kidan and the Tax Man


While the CEO of Chartwell is Holmes Lilley, the company’s president, founder, and majority owner is Tracy Schneider-Kidan. She resides in the same county as the company’s headquarters, and if one searches the county clerk’s website (http://prothonotary.co.lancaster.pa.us/civilcourt.public) using her name as the search-term query, there are several cases that pop up. Of these cases, three are harbingers of the currently dire financial situation that Chartwell is in. I will enumerate on that later, but first, let’s discuss these cases visible on Lancaster County’s website.

 
In February of 2016, a federal tax lien was filed by the IRS for $228,828.64 against Mrs. Schneider-Kidan. If you notice in the top upper right-hand corner of the document, it clearly states, beneath “area”, that this is in regard to “Small business/Self-employed area.” Currently, Chartwell is the only company registered under Tracy Schneider-Kidan, so in other words, Chartwell Staffing hadn’t paid its taxes.   It took about a year, but in 2017 the IRS was able to recoup its money from Mrs. Schneider-Kidan. So, why can’t a company, with 300 million in yearly revenue, pay its taxes before liens are processed? Its an unsettling thought, but the worrisome financial incidents don’t end there. Not even close. Because in June of 2016, another lien was filed by the IRS, except this one would be bigger.





The amount of the second lien? $283,017.13 dollars. 3 years have passed since it was filed, and unlike the first lien, however, this one has gone unpaid. Seems a little unstable. And yet still, Chartwell’s tax woes still aren’t over. In fact, they’re only getting worse. Much worse.







This time Mrs. Schneider-Kidan has set the bar high for herself. We’re talking millions of dollars high. In April 2019 a lien was filed again against Chartwell in the amount of $2,038,124.97, almost 20x the amount of the prior two liens. Going by the fact that she still hasn’t paid the lien for $283,017.13 three years after the fact, you can only surmise that this will remain unpaid. 
















 

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