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 [...]

By Jarret Bencks Medford Patch, June 2, 2011 The bright orange seized sign on the front door of Il Faro restaurant has been taken down, but the Medford Square restaurant is still in hot water with the state’s Department of Revenue. The seizure on the business was lifted after revenue officials determined nearly all of [...]

By Jarret Bencks Medford Patch, May 18, 2011 A seized Medford Square restaurant charged patrons a meals tax but didn’t pay what they collected to the state, a Department of Revenue Spokesman said Thursday. Il Faro, an Italian eatery located at 21 Main St., was seized by the Department of Revenue last week because it [...]

By Andy Furillo The Sacromento Bee (sacbee.com) Published: Friday, May. 6, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 6B Last Modified: Sunday, May. 8, 2011 – 12:35 pm Embattled tax attorney Roni Deutch hasn’t been paying her legal bills in the state’s effort to shut her down, according to the lawyer representing her, who now says [...]

By Darrell Smith and Mark Glover The Sacramento Bee (sacbee.com) Published: Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 – 4:34 pm Last Modified: Sunday, May. 8, 2011 – 12:35 pm Roni Deutch, the self-styled “Tax Lady,” could face jail time on contempt of court allegations after allegedly shredding millions of pages of documents and failing to pay clients [...]

By Princess Clark-Wendel Published May 03, 2011, FOXBusiness.com April 18 has come and gone, but many taxpayers are facing a large tax bill that they aren’t able to pay. But there are steps they can take to work with the International Revenue Service to develop a payment plan. After the IRS has made an assessment [...]