It seems only appropriate that this piece hits on tax day, April 15, 2025.
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. The “issues” ranged from mass layoffs to a variety of tax issues. His case was convincing enough that I actually felt it necessary to correct that initial report.
Today, however, it seems that my reporting might have been premature or prescient, but it was -even then- far from “inaccurate.”
Since the eleventh of March, 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 remind 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.
This is the official notice posted at each entrance of SCCY’s offices in Daytona Beach, Florida. The company FFL is also absent on the ATF website.
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, either. Unwilling to give up, I called the number for the manager who wrote last year’s closure memo to laid off workers. The memo I was told was “inaccurately written.”
I’m still waiting on that callback, too.
In the meantime, texts, emails and calls from former SCCY employees have kept coming. 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 levy and seizure notice 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 an 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/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.”
For owners of SCCY firearms, or dealers/distributors with their products, the message would seem to indicate that -at least for right now- they’re on their own.
As always, we’ll keep you posted.
— Jim Shepherd
