Tax Law Blog

Bitcoin owners rang in the New Year with enthusiasm as the value of their digital currency surged beyond $1,000 after the ball dropped. Two years ago, the price sat at $200. The sharp increase has more than just Bitcoin owners salivating, however....

The Internal Revenue Service is interested in your coins. Not the loose change you keep in a jar, but the digital bitcoins you might own. The IRS is trying to get information from the popular bitcoin exchange known as Coinbase. The agency hopes the...

A criminal defense attorney in Lousiana is finding out how his clients might feel after he entered a guilty plea to tax evasion this week. He owes the governement almost one million dollars after ten years of willfully evading his taxes. The...

An Oregon, Ohio psychiatrist who hid her income from the Internal Revenue Service for over six years, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion. She evaded more than $360,000 in income tax. The Justice Department Report tells us the...

The DOJ's Justice News provides us with an ironic case as a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revenue officer pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impede the due administration of the internal...

He was first elected to the state legislature so long ago that Bruce Willis was just emerging as a movie star and the Beach Boys had one of the year's top hits. Yes, it has been a long time since 1988, which will undoubtedly make the transition to...

The Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice are on a never-ending crusade to end tax evasion. As part of their ongoing efforts, they recently announced proposals to make the banking system more "transparent."

The Department of Justice's Tax Division has come down on a dentist from Nevada with a 13 month prison sentence for tax evasion.  According the DOJ press release, the case went as follows:

Outlaw country music had its roots in rockabilly, blues, honky tonk and the twang and swagger of traditional country music. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson were the greatest stars of the outlaw movement, but one of...