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 [...]

By Bonnie Lee Published May 05, 2011, FOXBusiness.com If you filed your taxes on time this year, it’s time to put away your tax file. And while you may be looking at the cartons of tax records sitting in the garage and wondering if you can shred some of them, we live in an age [...]

By Bonnie Lee Published March 17, 2011, FOXBusiness.com “Injured Spouse” is an IRS term for the husband or wife who is forced to watch a tax refund fly out the window instead of into the bank because of debts or taxes owed by the other spouse. The IRS and many state tax agencies have a [...]

By Bonnie Lee Published February 17, 2011, FOXBusiness.com If you owe current year taxes or liabilities from prior years, you may want to consider setting up an installment agreement with the IRS. But know this: It’s a revolving payment arrangement and the interest and penalties that accompany the unpaid balance can be killers. Not only [...]