By: Jenn Strathman, newsnet5.com CLEVELAND – The IRS said there’s been a five fold increase in identity theft from 2008 to 2010. While the IRS said the breach is not happening at their offices, they are stuck finding a solution to this costly problem that leaves legitimate taxpayers waiting months for their refund check. Despite [...]

Sacramento, Calif. (June 20, 2011) By Michael Cohn, Accounting Today Roni Deutch, the tax attorney who heavily advertised her IRS tax resolution services before she was forced out of business, has pleaded not guilty to contempt of court charges. Deutch billed herself as the “Tax Lady” in her infomercials before she closed down her law [...]

North Highlands, Calif. (May 16, 2011) By Michael Cohn, Accounting Today Roni Deutch, who heavily advertised her tax problem resolution services on television, has closed her law firm and surrendered her legal license after a California judge froze her assets. Deutch was sued last August by the California Attorney General for $34 million, charging her [...]

accountingtoday.com Sacramento, Calif. (April 21, 2011) A California judge has frozen the assets of “Tax Lady” Roni Deutch after the state attorney general asked the court to hold her in contempt for shredding millions of documents and wrongfully diverting funds from clients of her tax law firm. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shellyanne W.L. Chang signed [...]

accountingtoday.com Los Angeles (June 21, 2011) A Santa Monica man was arrested Friday morning on charges that he committed tax fraud and attempted to interfere with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws. Howard Hal Berger, 51, appeared Monday morning before U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter. Berger previously pleaded not guilty to the [...]

Tommy Williams CFP schreveporttimes.com June 18, 2011 Now that most of you have completed your tax returns for 2010, perhaps we might reflect on the most dreaded of tax consequences, the IRS audit. We spend a considerable amount of time in an effort to be tax efficient. Defer taxes, avoid them and use every tool [...]

By John Bullis The Nevada Appeal June 21, 2011 IRS does not have the people and resources to audit every individual income tax return. It varies, but about 1 percent of all returns are audited each year. IRS has a good computer “matching” program. They record information from banks and companies that pay you under [...]

By Littice Bacon-Blood The Times-Picayune, June 21, 2011 A former St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s lieutenant and his wife, who owned an accounting service company, pleaded guilty to fraud in federal court on Monday for filing false federal tax returns and collecting more than $800,000 using the names of inmates held in the parish jail, according [...]

The Huffington Post James Sunshine, 06/19/11 Last September, Laguna Beach resident Stephen McDow found $110,000 deposited in his bank account, courtesy of the IRS. That same deposit has now landed him in hot water, according to CBS Los Angeles. The IRS mistakenly sent the tax refund money, meant for a 67-year-old woman, to McDow, instead, [...]

Almost 3% of IRS workers caught cheating but some slip through cracks By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch.com June 21, 2011, 5:35 p.m. EDT SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The IRS catches almost 3,000 tax scofflaws in its own ranks each year, but some employees still dodge the system, according to a new Treasury Department report. The Internal [...]