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A Calhoun County judge ordered Thursday that Lamar’s Donuts
in Oxford be padlocked for nonpayment of taxes.
The owners of the Hamrick Drive doughnut shop owed a total
of $195,081 in unpaid state and local taxes, according to a complaint filed by
the state Department of Revenue in February 2014.
Subsequent court filings show that the business had begun
making some partial payments on those debts. On June 16, 2014, Calhoun County
Circuit Judge John Thomason ordered the business to begin paying $800 monthly
through Jan. 15, 2015, or face being closed.
The company failed to comply with that order, according to
court records. On Thursday, Thomason ordered Calhoun County Sheriff Larry
Amerson to padlock the business “at the earliest feasible time.”
The business is to remain closed until all taxes, penalties
and interest are paid in full, according to the complaint, filed by David Avery
III, assistant counsel for the Alabama Department of Revenue.
Nancy Robertson, the registered agent for Davis-Venture
Properties, which operates the Oxford franchise location of Lamar’s Donuts,
declined to comment on the matter.
Lamar’s Donuts, headquartered in Colorado, has 27 locations
in six states, according to the company’s website.
Ron King, spokesman for Lamar’s Donuts, said that the
company has very limited knowledge of the finances of its franchise owners, but
that the Oxford location is the only Lamar’s donuts in the southeast.
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