We take tax problems seriously, but sometimes a little comic relief is appropriate. We hope you enjoy this tax cartoon as much as we did!

An Anne Arundel County, Md., council member pleaded guilty to failing to file a federal income tax return.
Daryl D. Jones, 47, of Severn, Md., also admitted that he failed to file personal income tax returns for four years and quarterly business payroll tax returns for six years.
Jones operated a law office and a tavern. From 2002 to 2007, Jones knowingly failed to file four personal income tax returns. He also
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Lakecia Motley, 32, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for tax fraud and ordered to pay $676,465.49 in restitution to the IRS. At Motley’s plea and sentencing hearings, the prosecutors proved that from 2005 to 2007, she and her co-conspirators filed numerous fraudulent tax returns using stolen identity information. The United States lost a total $676,465.49 from the false tax returns.

German A. Posada, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false 2004 individual income tax return and making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Posada admitted to filing a false individual income tax return for 2004 that underreported the income from his business as a real estate agent in the Las Vegas area.
From 2003 to 2005, Posada earned commission income from International Realty and another agency.  He
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At Tax Resolution Services we admire the creativity people use to try to avoid paying taxes. If you fall into the category of “creative” accounting, we hate to kill your spirit, but we are here to let you know that the IRS has seen, and heard, it all! So although you may think you are pulling a “fast one” over the tax man, in the end, you won’t be the
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A Tallahassee, Fla., man whose business involved selling CDs and DVDs at a flea market was convicted of four counts of tax evasion from his failure to file personal tax returns for the years 2005 to 2008.
From 2005 to 2008, Lennie Fulwood Jr., 42, made cash deposits totaling more than $1.7 million, which he placed into multiple bank accounts established in Tallahassee. The majority of the cash deposits were made
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A 60-year-old general contractor in Tijeras, N.M., received the harshest sentence possible for filing a false tax return — three years in prison.
Robert A. Fout admitted that he concealed from the IRS income he made from his contracting work. Fout admitted he did not report $16,754 in income in 2005, $66,961 in 2006, $32,604 in 2007, and $322,195 in 2008.
As part of his plea agreement, Fout agreed to pay $153,416
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Unpaid payroll taxes can lead to the downfall of your business. As a business owner, you have a duty to collect the correct amount of taxes and turn them over to the IRS. When payroll taxes go unpaid, the IRS does not mess around. The man in the article below deliberately scammed the IRS of payroll taxes and he will be paying for his crime soon.
The owner and operator of
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Every month Tax Resolution Services chooses a very special Tax Client Of The Month. It’s our way of acknowledging good friends and saying “thanks” to those who support our business with referrals, word of mouth and repeat business.
This month’s Tax Client Of The Month is Mr. Mark C.

Mr. Mark C. owed the IRS nearly $37,000 in back taxes. After several months of negotiations, we were able to settle his
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As the founder of Tax Resolution Services and as a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist, I have helped many individuals get out of tax debt. In the IRS Question Corner article below, I explain more about the IRS Offer in Compromise, a program designed to help consumers pay off tax debt, especially when they are under a serious financial strain. One note about the Offer in Compromise program, it is not
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Celebrity tax problems seem to never cease.  Even for those who are no longer really a celebrity.  Richard Hatch was the first winner of “Survivor” and although his fame seems to have disappeared, his tax woes with the IRS certainly haven’t!
Richard Hatch, the winner of the first season of CBS’s hit reality show Survivor, hasn’t survived the Internal Revenue Service.
Claiming he’s “destitute,” Hatch has asked for a court-appointed lawyer to
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A Miami contractor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for employment tax fraud.
Reynaldo Orozco was also ordered to pay $504,047 in restitution to the United States.
Orozco previously pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false employment tax return on March 22, 2011. According to court documents, from 2004 to 2007, Orozco owned and operated Rock Construction Builders Inc., a construction business located in Miami-Dade County.
Orozco admitted that he
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For anyone with outstanding tax debt, I wanted to provide additional information to the IRS’s advisory list of Ten Tips for Taxpayers Who Owe Back Taxes or Have Other Tax Debt newsletter published a few weeks ago. The IRS’ objectives on this subject are simple; collect every cent of taxes owed as soon as possible. In order to achieve this, the IRS has made the payment process easy by widely
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The IRS newsletter Ten Tips for Taxpayers Who Owe Back Taxes or Have Other Tax Debt published a few weeks back, alerted Americans seeking tax debt relief there are ten options available to pay off their outstanding tax debt. These new IRS programs and policies are an effort to get delinquent taxpayers to avoid additional fines penalties or tax liens by making easy payment methods available such as a
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