Tax Law Blog

Tax fraud involving fraudulent tax returns takes down another tax preparer—this time an examiner for the IRS.

You have heard it before. Since it is tax time, you’ll hear it again. Choose your tax preparer wisely.

Reality often bites. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) drove that point home recently with a top five list of their most prominent prosecutions in 2020.

As most people know, failure to file an income tax return can cause trouble—or you might not get a refund that is owed to you.

Avoid an IRS audit by knowing what you can–and cannot—deduct this year. The Domestic Production Activities Deduction (DPAD) is likely not a good candidate.

As a business owner, it is easy to slip into questionable business practices. When it becomes a slide, it is important to know what can happen—and where to get help.

Two principals of the defunct law firm behind the notorious Panama Papers scandal sued Netflix for its allegedly defamatory depiction of them in the movie, “The Laundromat.”

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to boost the number of small business audits it performs in 2021.

In the waning days of the Trump administration, a federal prosecutor laid charges against an MIT professor as the parting salvo in the China Initiative, a program targeting the secret drain of proprietary secrets from the US to China.

Eager to avoid a tax controversy? Let’s talk about how to steer clear of filing a false tax return or one that is likely to attract the attention of the algorithms or personnel employed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).