Tax Law Blog

On April 3, journalists revealed blockbuster evidence that dozens of world leaders, public figures, celebrities and billionaires may have hidden assets offshore with the help of a Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca and a network of big banks...

A Newington, Connecticut, insurance salesman was convicted of tax fraud in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in Hartford following a seven-day jury trial, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the...

A Germantown, Tennessee, resident and business owner pleaded guilty to failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced:

American companies have done it. Why can’t you? It’s inversion, the tax-avoidance strategy used by Burger King, Medtronic and other giants to avoid paying the Internal Revenue Service. By merging with a foreign corporation, the U.S. companies can...

The odds, the statistics and simple logic are all in your favor. Despite all of that, you might find yourself being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. If you find that you’ve beaten the odds and defied logic and become a statistical anomaly,...

For those residents who might have been keeping assets in the Cayman Islands comes some possibly unsettling news: the Department of Justice recently announced guilty pleas from Cayman National Securities Ltd. and Cayman National Trust Co. Ltd. The...

Audit roulette is not as inevitably deadly as Russian roulette, but if you wind up getting audited, you might feel the difference between the two is not significant. Audit roulette is when a taxpayer knowingly underpays the Internal Revenue Service...

In our previous post on our Cleveland tax blog, we discussed some of the occasions and circumstances in which it makes sense for taxpayers to hire tax professionals. As regular readers will recall, we mentioned required FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank...

That pile of tax forms on your desk is familiar, yet also alien. You know you have to tackle it by April 18 this year (instead of the traditional April 15). About three out of five taxpayers turn to tax professionals to help fill out the forms and...

Hunting season is open. The prey? Tax deductions. Everyone wants to bag some by April 15. Forbes recently ran an article describing some unusual, though wholly legitimate tax deductions. Not all of the deductions will work for all people. In fact,...