Tax Law Blog

The numbers can be a bit jarring. According to an article in Accounting Today, there are nearly 19 million Americans who are in arrears on their federal income taxes. Their tax bill totals more than $400 billion. Four million people are making...

He has collaborated with some of the biggest names in pop music, including Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell and Tim McGraw. But none of Cornell Iral Hayne, Jr.'s collaborations might have been more valuable to him than the recent one...

The grip the Internal Revenue Service has on foreign banks continues to strengthen. More evidence of that was supplied by Switzerland's announcement that it is going to disclose account information from HSBC Holdings Plc to the IRS.

The pressure put on taxpayers with foreign holding by the Internal Revenue Service appears to be paying off. The federal agency recently reported that foreign back account report filings rose more than 8 percent last year, passing the 1 million mark.

With football season upon us, many of our readers' thoughts turn to punishing hits and concussion protocols. But let's face it: No one hits harder than the Internal Revenue Service. When the federal agency wants to punish someone, it has the power...

In the middle of heated presidential campaigns, people will sometimes vow to move out of the country if Candidate X or Candidate Y is elected. Most of these pledges are never carried out, but for those who are sincere about leaving the United States...

Accusations, insults and allegations are hurled back and forth between political parties during this heated election season. So it is nice to see politicians take a breather and pause, if only briefly, to agree on something.

Rowen Seibel is probably not a household name, unless your household is fascinated by the exploits of reality TV's culinary icon Gordon Ramsay. He and Seibel are suing each other disagreements in their partnership in several restaurants.

In latest news from the U.S. Department of Justice, we want to highlight this case of how unpaid employment taxes can add up quickly leading to serious consequences. A Germantown, Tennessee, resident and business owner was sentenced to one year in...