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 [...]

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 [...]

Lisa had suffered greatly as a result of personal problems, including both a divorce and a personal bankruptcy. She lost everything she owned – including her home. Fortunately, bankruptcy gave her a fresh start and a new lease on life . . . or so she thought! Just when she thought her troubles were over, [...]

Jack was a contractor who had not filed returns for eight years. The IRS had filed returns for him for some of those years and was demanding returns for other years immediately or else! The IRS had levied his paycheck and there was no end in sight. Our firm worked with Jack to prepare and [...]