Tax Law Blog

A recently released report by the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council says that the IRS goal of tax filing compliance might be hindered more than helped by the agency's penalties. The report urges the IRS to conduct a review of its fines to...

The Internal Revenue Service is interested in your coins. Not the loose change you keep in a jar, but the digital bitcoins you might own. The IRS is trying to get information from the popular bitcoin exchange known as Coinbase. The agency hopes the...

A criminal defense attorney in Lousiana is finding out how his clients might feel after he entered a guilty plea to tax evasion this week. He owes the governement almost one million dollars after ten years of willfully evading his taxes. The...

Chicago Cubs fans will be forgiven if they have fallen into a state of oblivious complacency. All worries vanished when their team finally won the World Series. But that state of tranquility can be smashed in a heartbeat when you receive a letter...

As dark and gloomy as the future might look right now to a former councilwoman, it could easily have been far worse. The resident of Jupiter, Florida, was recently sentenced to 8 months in prison, followed by supervision. She was also ordered to pay...

A Louisana couple who runs a convenience store and check cashing business were sentenced for Conspiracy and Filing False Tax Returns last week. The pair worked with several co-conspirators to cash fraudulent tax refund checks while charging an...

It is understandable how the scam works. A harsh, authoritarian voice on the other end of the phone tells the unsuspecting victim that the Internal Revenue Service has determined that the person has broken the law and subsequently owes a lot in back...

An Oregon, Ohio psychiatrist who hid her income from the Internal Revenue Service for over six years, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion. She evaded more than $360,000 in income tax. The Justice Department Report tells us the...

The U.S. Department of Justice recently published news of an indictment, charging the owners of sixteen adult foster care homes located throughout Michigan with 60 counts of failing to account for and pay over employment taxes. The full press release

He was an apparently savvy emeritus professor of business administration. Dan Horsky amassed a fortune of $200 million by investing in start-ups, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. However, Horsky recently paid half of that -- $100...