Tax Law Blog

Employers in Ohio and across the U.S. are obligated to collect, report, remit, and document taxes withheld from employees that are paid over to state coffers and the U.S. Treasury. Failure of that duty can lead to personal liability for business...

While there are numerous legal ways to minimize an income tax burden, falsifying returns and committing fraud to try to get out of paying what is lawfully owed will get you into trouble with the IRS, as one Michigan man recently found out.

There are a number of celebrities in the U.S. who have paid the price for tax evasion and tax fraud, including Martha Stewart, Willie Nelson, Alex Baldwin, and Nicolas Cage (with Hunter Biden’s eventual fate still in the offing). It seems that the...

Once again, Deutsch Bank finds itself in the U.S. Federal Reserve’s gunsights for its failure to fix its anti-money laundering (AML) practices. This time, it is costing them $186M.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reserves its Top Ten Tax Fraud list for notable schemes prosecuted in the past year. Number five is on the list likely for its national scale and sheer audacity.

Increased risk and scammers contributed to the decision that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will discontinue unannounced visits to taxpayers who owe taxes or failed to file tax returns.

No one enjoys hearing from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unless it is about a refund. Audit letters can be concerning, but an IRS criminal tax investigation can change your future.

Longtime television personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley began the next chapter in their lives—apart and behind bars—after conviction on tax and financial fraud. The prosecution of the couple made the top ten list of IRS:CI for 2022, likely for the...

In 2021, a document trove containing approximately 11.9 million records was leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Dubbed the “Pandora Papers,” disclosure of the documents continues to disrupt the opaque world of...

You may have been busy or decided you would just skip filing an income tax return a few years ago. Then it became a habit, and you have not filed in three years—is this a problem? Short answer? “Yes,” if you owed taxes in any of those years.