Tax Law Blog

Thirty-two-year-old Joel Caswell owned three businesses and employed 40 workers. He also engaged in identity theft, bank fraud, payroll tax fraud, and wire fraud until an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal investigation pulled the plug.

As routine as they are, if you handle them incorrectly, payroll taxes can become a very expensive mistake.

It is not unusual for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prosecute taxpayers who engage in tax evasion, pandemic-era relief fraud or employment tax crimes. More unusual is a case in which the same business operators are accused of all three

Since the pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has pursued taxpayers who mistakenly or intentionally profited from the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) program.

Business owners understand that paying employer payroll taxes and making accurate reports to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are important for tax compliance. If the IRS contacts you regarding payroll tax payment or other employment tax issues,...

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.