Reuters reports that three explosive devices blew up outside the Naples offices of Equitalia, a state agency that collects overdue taxes and fines, breaking windows but injuring no one on Monday night, a police official told Reuters: Police said no group had claimed responsibility for the attack on the building on Corso Meridionale near Naples central [...]
Tags: Tax Collections · Tax Crimes
From Kelly Phillips-Erb aka TaxGirl: Talk about the naked truth. Fans of beleaguered artist Ai Weiwei have tapped the power of the internet to show their support… by posing naked. Ai Weiwei was charged with tax evasion earlier this year, a charge that he claims is related to his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government. [...]
Tags: Satire · Tax Crimes
It doesn’t take a fission engineer to deduce that more people would be willing to risk jail time to save 60% of their income than would be willing to risk jail time to save 25% of their income. Tim Lister of CNN.Opinion writes in Tax Evasion is a National Pastime in Southern Europe (emphasis added): “Wherever the [...]
Tags: Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy · The Economy
The Wall Street Journal reports today that yet another former partner at a major New York law firm has been charged with failing to pay taxes: John J. O’Brien, who specialized in corporate mergers and acquisitions at “a major Wall Street law firm,” was charged Thursday with four misdemeanor tax counts by federal prosecutors in [...]
Tags: Tax Crimes
Kelly Phillips-Erb reports that another hip hop rap artist has been convicted of tax crimes: Rapper and actor Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, was sentenced this week to more than two years in federal prison for failing to file income tax returns between 2004 and 2006. He had faced up to three [...]
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Paul Caron reports that a Former Kirkland & Ellis Partner Indicted, Accused of Cheating on Personal Income Tax: A former bankruptcy partner at Kirkland & Ellis has been indicted on four counts of income tax fraud. Theodore Freedman, 63, is accused of underreporting by over $2 million his nearly $5.4 million in total income between [...]
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“You better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’. – Bob Dylan – Jack Townsend of Federal Tax Crimes reports (emphasis is mine): There are reports that the Swiss Government in moving / inching toward real exchange of information under its double tax treaties, which are, like most [...]
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