An IRS revenue agent has pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The 51-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to filing false returns for himself, as well as a number of relatives. In some cases, he admitted to filing returns for relatives without…
Our tax attorneys noted the recent closure of American Tax Relief in Beverly Hills for fraud and misleading advertising that claimed the company could settle delinquent federal and state taxes for pennies on the dollar. We reported recently on our Tax Problem Attorney Blog when Roni Deutch ran afoul of…
According to a complaint Part 2) filed by the California Attorney General against a well known tax debt problems through tax debt resolution services. Deutch tells clients that once they retain Roni Deutch A P.C., the clients are not legally obligated to continue making installment payments to the IRS. *…
I just returned from an ABA meeting of tax lawyers in Washington, D.C. It seemed like all of the tax attorneys (or at least the tax litigation attorneys) could find nothing to talk about, but Foreign Bank Account Reports, i.e. TDF 90-22.1 (FBARs),voluntary disclosures, and offshore bank accounts. Over a…
When the IRS files its federal tax lien it attaches to all of the taxpayer’s assets, including his home, bank accounts, cars and personal belongs. The federal tax lien ensures that if real property is sold any proceeds will go to the IRS to pay its tax lien. The IRS…
The Internal Revenue’s (IRS ) tax lien filing polices were in the Taxpayer Advocate’s 2009 Report to Congress listed as the second most serious tax problem facing taxpayers today. This is not a big surprise to those tax lawyers who deal with IRS tax collection problems on a regular basis.…
In conversations with the IRS Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) hotline, I have been told that the IRS plans on issuing a second FBAR FAQ to supplement the first FBAR FAQ which was issued by the IRS only last month. As readers of this blog know, the first FBAR FAQ…
Earlier this year Robert Allen Stanford became infamous when he was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of engaging in a gigantic fraud. It turns out that Robert Allen Stanford also has massive tax problems. According to a Motion to Intervene filed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…
The United States Tax Court has upheld a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) turning down Koko Taylor’s offer in compromise, and allowing the IRS to proceed with a tax levy against all of her property and income. It also upheld the tax lien filed against her. Koko Taylor…
According to CNN former Sen. Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services has some tax problems. CNN says he failed to pay taxes on a car and driver he had been loaned by a wealthy friend, and failed to disclose it on his tax…