Tax Law Blog

Few things were as dreaded in school as a pop quiz. Today's blog post is the opposite of a pop quiz. We are going to give you both the questions and answers that could prove useful if you ever face the taxpayer test known as an IRS audit.

Everyone is looking forward to the holidays, and time off to spend with family and friends. Not many people are looking forward to what comes on the heels of the holidays: Tax season.

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...