Tax Law Blog

We know that the majority of business owners are well-intentioned people who have no desire to run afoul of the law. However, it is also true that running a company puts heavy demands on your time and attention. You must be focused, organized and...

Business owners face constant demands on their time and attention while bearing responsibility for compliance with tax and employment laws. Whether errors are accidental or deliberate, payroll tax mistakes can carry serious consequences, which is...

In life and in poker, litigator Thomas Goldstein played to win. A well-respected attorney who argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and co-founder of the popular SCOTUSblog, Goldstein received a guilty verdict after being tried...

Each year, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) releases its “Top Ten” list of the most significant criminal cases it has prosecuted. The list is not just a recap of bad behavior but it is a roadmap of what the IRS is...

A Dallas businesswoman took advantage of her company's payroll taxes, and it did not turn out well for her.

Payroll taxes are a requisite feature of owning or running a business. Employer payroll taxes also fund important social programs, making their collection and pay over to the U.S. Treasury an important enforcement priority of the Internal Revenue...

A recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation reflects the ease of employer tax crime and the serious consequences they create for both employees and business owners.

Withholding and remitting employment taxes is a basic part of doing business for most U.S companies. When a business ceases to account for wage withholding with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it is often only a matter of time before the agency...

Sometimes business owners are tempted to dip into payroll tax withholdings. But a Florida man took payroll tax fraud to a whole new level.

Tax fraud does not pay—especially fraud involving employment taxes.