Tax Law Blog

Many of our Cleveland readers will recall the name of former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds. His name is likely to be even more familiar to readers in Chicago, where Reynolds represented the city's far southeast side in Congress. The former Rhodes Scholar...

The Internal Revenue Service is not known for positive reinforcement. It doesn't send out congratulations to taxpayers who fill out complicated returns perfectly or who file early. Instead, taxpayers tend to hear from the IRS when something has gone...

Over the past couple of years, Cleveland media has reported on the saga of Michael Grimm, the former U.S. Congressman from New York. Grimm was indicted last year on 20 counts, including three accusing him of aiding and assisting in the preparation of

"Main Street" of a small town 600 miles south of Cleveland has a few churches on it, a couple of auto parts stores, a sandwich shop and a Piggly Wiggly. A few blocks off of the main drag of Fairmont, North Carolina, sits an L&M Convenience Mart on a...

We think new and regular readers of our Cleveland tax blog will find interesting a question-and-answer exchange between an attorney who doubles as a newspaper advice columnist and a reader of the Boston paper. The reader wrote in about his past tax...

Back in the 1970s, she was one of America's youngest sweethearts, starring on "Little House on the Prairie." It has been awhile since Melissa Gilbert's name was mentioned in the news, and her recent return was probably not what she would have wished...

The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently reported on the latest Internal Revenue Service caution to consumers: beware of a new tax scam. Apparently scammers are calling people, posing as IRS employees and demanding payment on overdue taxes.

The words of advice have been shouted by firefighters, spoken by presidents and written in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": Don't panic! An investment adviser and syndicated columnist addresses those wise words to people who get letters from...

Regular readers of our Cleveland tax blog will undoubtedly recall recent references to the FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). It's essentially a report to the Internal Revenue Service on amounts of $10,000 or more in any overseas...