Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

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 [...]

Don and Alicia knew they were in serious trouble. They had not filed tax returns for several years and owed the IRS over $240,000. Unfortunately, they had ignored an IRS Summons demanding their appearance before IRS Revenue Officers with records relating to both their personal finances and Don’s business. As a result, IRS Revenue Officers [...]

Jim had not filed returns for seven years. He was petrified of what lay in store for him with the IRS. Fortunately, the IRS had not caught up to him yet but it was only a matter of time before they would. Our firm worked to organize his business records and prepare a set of [...]

Art was experiencing cash flow problems in his business. He believed in his heart that things would turn around and that his problem was only temporary. Unfortunately, his cash flow problems only got worse. His business just wasn’t making it. To alleviate this “temporary” cash flow problem, Art started borrowing from the IRS bank (ie. [...]