Photo by Chris Rief
On any given day, the line snaking outside Georgetown Cupcake’s original store includes passersby looking for a sweet snack, social butterflies looking to stock their next party with a dozen frosted treats, or tourists lured in by their fandom of the TLC series DC Cupcakes. Well, the shop’s famed cupcake bouncers may soon find themselves greeting someone else: the taxman.
Washington Business Journal reports that Georgetown Cupcake is $189,282.71 behind in its sales tax payments to the District government. The store, owned by sisters Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, was slapped with a lien this week for not submitting sales tax collections from last August, September, and October.
Counting penalties, the lien says that Georgetown Cupcake owes the District $69,571.78 for August, $66,353.74 for September, and $53,357.19 for October. An attorney representing Georgetown Cupcake told Washington Business Journal sales tax reports for those months hit a “snag” and were submitted without checks, but that the amounts owed would be paid as soon as last night.
Since its founding in 2008, Georgetown Cupcake has grown to include shops in Bethesda, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, with a sixth shop on the way in Atlanta.
