Blake Ellis of CNNMoney writes about a woman who fraudulently claimed 20 child dependents on her income tax return: Tax fraudsters are getting more creative — and, in some cases, more daring. But the IRS is making it harder for them to get away with their tricks. Late last week, a Los Angeles woman pleaded guilty [...]
Tags: Individual Taxation · News · Tax Crimes
You remember Cindy Sheehan, don’t you? She is the proud soldier’s mother who remained silent about President Bush and the Iraq war as long as it was the sons of other mothers who died in battle, but then, when her own son died in battle, immediately began a public campaign opposing the war and calling President Bush a war criminal and a murderer.¹ [...]
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Russ Fox reports about a tax preparer who got six years jail time for impersonating a CPA, not for the usual and perfectably understandable reason of bagging hot chicks, but rather, to defraud investors: Nick Holquin, Jr. was a tax preparer in San Jose. He decided to invest in a Mississippi land development project. When the economy tanked, [...]
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It didn’t take a missile scientist to predict that the Supreme Court would deny Wesley Snipes’ petition for certiorari. FoxNews reports: There will be no courtroom retake for actor Wesley Snipes as the Supreme Court announced Monday that it will not give further consideration to an appeal from the Hollywood star who is serving a three-year [...]
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I just read Snipes’s petiton for cert and discovered that his lawyers’ arguments are wackier than I had first thought. Before his criminal trial Wesley Snipes claimed that venue was not proper in the Middle District of Florida, Ocala Division. The Court then allowed the venue issue to be presented to the jury. The jury found, by [...]
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WebCPA reports that a Buffalo, New York pizzeria owner who failed to pay New York State over $100,000 in sales taxes has been ordered by a judge to deliver 12 free pies a week to a local charity that serves the poor: Joseph Jacobbi, owner of Casa-Di-Pizza, has repaid $51,000 of the $104,295.31 tax debt so [...]
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Well, maybe you can’t. WebCPA reports that Robert Blake, the actor who played the title character in the 70′s T.V. series Baretta, is facing a $1.1 million tax lien from the state of California: The state filed a tax lien for $1,110,878 on April 9 with the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds, according to the Detroit News. [...]
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