The  trial date has been set for the “Dancing with the Stars” indy race car driver who was indicted last month on tax evasion charges involving “an offshore Panamanian shell corporation Seven Promotions to conceal and disguise the true and correct amount of Helio Castroneves’ income from the Internal Revenue Service.”
The Associated Press reports:
Race car driver Helio Castroneves will stand trial in March in Miami federal court on tax evasion
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A Tennessee bar owner pleaded guilty to tax evasion and faces up to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
According to prosecutors, John H. Rawlings, 70, of New Johnsonville, Tenn., filed a false and fraudulent income tax return for the calendar year 2002. The return claimed Rawlings had no taxable income and owed no taxes during that year when, in fact, he knew that he had approximately $92,358.21 of
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Albert Einstein once wrote, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” The product of 95 years worth of additions, subtractions, deductions, and exclusions, it has become such a headache that many are calling for it to be drastically simplified or even removed all together.
With a looming fiscal crisis on the horizon, April 15th seems more like a scene from a B-Horror horror movie than a
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A FedEx pilot, charged with six counts of income tax evasion, pleaded guilty to one of those counts.
According to the indictment, Michael D. Mason, 51, of Cordova, Tenn., failed to file income tax returns for calendar years 2000 to 2004. Additionally, the indictment alleges that Mason failed to pay the IRS income tax due and owing and concealed or attempted to conceal his true and correct income from the IRS.
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With the current global downturn, it is clear that the new President-elect needs to have a plan to help struggling Americans and lift our nation’s distressed businesses out of a lagging economy.
President-elect Obama wants to raise taxes on income, capital gains and dividends for families earning more than $250,000 annually. (By the way, I’ve heard $200,000 and $140,000 as well throughout the campaign and by Vice President-elect Biden).
Under Obama’s tax
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A majority of companies suspected of participating in LILO and SILO transactions agree to make nice with Uncle Sam.
By Michael Rozbruch
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The Internal Revenue Service’s aggressive tax compliance and enforcement initiatives continue.
The U.S. tax-collecting agency announced it has received settlement agreements from more than two-thirds of American corporations suspected of participating in arrangements that pushed away income tax obligations for many years.
These arrangements, known Lease-In/Lease-Out (LILO) and Sale-in/Sale-Out (SILO) transactions, are
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