Tax Law Blog

The Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs announced the sentencing for former Arrow Trucking executive's involvement in a multi-million dollar tax fraud scheme:

Former CEO and president of Arrow Trucking, James Douglas Pielsticker, was...

Cleveland business owners are often familiar with marketing software that enables you to contact customers and potential customers, targeting them by zip codes, purchase types, area codes and other information entered into the program. You type your...

It's time for the playoffs in major league baseball, which means Cleveland Indians players will be watching the games on TV with the rest of us. Hope springs eternal, however, and if we look ahead to next year, we can picture the team picking up a...

As part of Fatca (The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), a tax-evasion-detection program enacted in 2010, the following announcement of a new program to detect and thwart illegal tax avoidance has significant impact on foreign accounts.  You can...

Robotic voice with an imperious tone? Check. Demand for money? Check. Issuing a threat to make your life miserable? Check. It might well have seemed reasonable to an Ohio man that the voice message he had on his phone was from an authentic Internal...

You're standing in a room with 115 other people. A blindfolded IRS agent walks in, spins around in the center of the room and then dramatically points a finger at one person. You. You have been chosen for an audit by the agent.

That's not how the...

We have in the past in this space discussed Sen. Rand Paul's lawsuit aimed at derailing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Paul and other plaintiffs are also out to upend the requirement to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial...

Some readers who are long-time fans of country music will recognize the name of outlaw legend David Allan Coe. He wrote big hits for artists such as Tanya Tucker (Would You Lay with Me In a Field of Stone") and Johnny Paycheck ("Take This Job and...