As Tax Day April 15th draws near, I will be reaching into archive blog posts to gather useful and informative posts that can help taxpayers avoid IRS issues and find tax relief. Today’s topic: small business tax audits.
In a previous post and TaxMan episode for the Big Biz Show, I discussed how small business owners often make themselves targets for harmful tax audits citing a tragic story of business owners
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Donna Guerin, 52, former CPA and tax attorney for Jenkens and Gilchrist, received an 8 year prison sentence and will be required to pay $190 million in restitution for her participation in what the Treasury Department calls “the largest criminal tax fraud in history.” An Accounting Today article titled: “Tax Attorney CPA Sentenced to 8 Years for Massive Tax Fraud Scheme“ provides some details of this landmark case:

Guerin ran a massive
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This episode of the national network television show, TaxMan highlights the story of yours truly, Michael Rozbruch. I thought consumers out there should get to know me a little bit and understand my background. I also wanted to convey my reasons for wanting to resolve people’s tax problems and why I started Tax Resolution Services, Co. fifteen years ago and have never looked back. (Below the video are some main
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This week’s tax topics ranged from tax evasion cases to getting tax relief with the IRS Offer in Compromise Program. Here are highlights from the ones covered on the Tax Resolution University Blog:
Tax Evasion

Nancy Armienti, 59, of Elmer, New Jersey, admitted to evading federal income taxes in 2008 on nearly $700,000 in income she took from her former employee of Atlantic County Concrete and Material Company. Armienti created false
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The 2013 IRS Update courtesy of Robert Mackenzie at Arnstein and Lehr LLP was released this January. This report covers the most recent IRS (2011) statistics on topics related to tax resolution issues.  I was especially intrigued by the report’s statistics and information over the previous decade including yearly comparisons of IRS levies, tax liens and IRS seizures from years 2001 – 2011. Here is an example of how these
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The New Year is a great time to get a fresh start with financial issues specifically tax debt problems that can only get worse if ignored. I created the national network television show, TaxMan to show folks struggling with IRS debt the entire tax problem resolution process; from soup to nuts.
This episode of TaxMan focuses on the “resolution” phase and introduces a valued member of the Tax Team, Installment Agreement
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If you have back tax issues, a New Year’s tax resolution should top the list. As I mentioned in a previous post, the IRS is getting more aggressive with consumers including celebrities who may be hiding income, cheating on taxes or ignoring their back tax debt.
The latest celebrity who should be considering New Year’s tax resolution is rapper Joseph Cartagena, aka Fat Joe. Accounting Today reports in their article: Rapper
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The year is ending, and this is the time for tax cheats and debtors to come clean.
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Charlie Sheen spent some time recently with Lindsay Lohan.
The two actors, both controversial and sources of tabloid fodder, were on the set of Scary Movie 5.
According to news reports, Lohan told Sheen about her tax problem. She owes, according to previous reports, as much as a quarter of a million dollars in back taxes
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Happy Friday! Here is a recap of some of the tax relief news reported on this week.
Tax Liens and Levies – I am proud to announce the release of the 14th episode of my national network television show, Tax Man. This episode was designed to feature many different tax topics so that people in trouble will have a reference and better understanding of what to do when tax problems occur. The
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It appears Lindsay Lohan’s legendary IRS tax issues may be a thing of the past thanks to Charlie Sheen. According to a TMZ article, titled Charlie Sheen Paid Lindsay Lohan $100K to Cover Tax Debt the “no stranger to controversy” Sheen, befriended Lohan on the set of “Scary Movie 5” and decided to write her a check for $100K to help her pay down her massive tax debt, apparently out
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If you thought you could hide under the radar with your tax debt, think again. Because the government is hurting for revenue, lawmakers in Washington are getting more creative in collecting back taxes. Their latest consideration: report IRS tax debt to credit agencies. Accounting Today recently published an article titled, IRS May Report Tax Debts to Credit Bureaus that discusses the serious thought and consideration Congress has been giving this
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Last week, California’s Franchise Tax Board released its “Hall of Shame” list of the top 500 individuals and businesses who owe the most in back taxes. According to an Associated Press (AP) article, Warwick, Seagal among those who owe Calif. Taxes, the most famous celebrity tax evaders topping the list are none other than singer Dionne Warwick and actor Steven Seagal.

Warwick, who has been delinquent since 2003 and now lives
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As mentioned before, identity theft issues concerning the IRS and taxpayers have grown significantly in the last few years, adversely affecting the financial lives of everyday people, often people we know. Identity Theft Case in point: Robert “Sully” Sullivan, Big Biz Show radio and TV personality and friend visited the Tax Resolution Services offices to reveal that he was recently a victim of identity theft and to inquire about what
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Happy Friday everyone! It’s time for another weekly tax relief roundup covering a myriad of IRS tax debt issues currently talked about in the news.
It seems there are always headlines about people trying to scam the tax system. This week was no exception:

Jerold Fisher from Arma, Kansas was charged with filing false claims that he over paid more than $3.9 million in taxes, and that his mother (whose returns Fisher
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Press recognition can often do wonders for a celebrity career but not when the subject matter features IRS tax issues. The latest celebrities in this weeks making headlines for owing the tax man are singer Kelis (famous for the song “Milkshake”) and rapper Beanie Sigel.
Kelis’ tax troubles were recently highlighted in a TMZ article entitled Coast to Coast Tax Liens, listing her following 2004 & 2010 tax issues where she
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