Is any publicity really good publicity?
This year alone, celebrity tax woes has caught taxpayers’ eyes from coast to coast and even abroad. Earlier this month, our team’s national tax expert Brian Compton was quoted in HowStuffWorks on how celebrities get in IRS trouble and why average taxpayers need to beware.
According to the HowStuffWorks article, celebrities meet their tax problems in various ways: “the oblivious (Nic Cage: I’m just an entertainer!),
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From scandalous celebrity tax woes to how to avoid tax resolution scams, November was a busy month for top tax help tips! As you get busy with the upcoming holidays, don’t neglect your taxes–no one wants to start off a new year on Uncle Sam’s wrong side. So read on for our monthly recap of our top tax relief blog posts from the past month:
Avoiding Tax Scams, How to Decipher
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It wasn’t too long ago that Destiny’s Child Kelly Rowland rode her wave of fame with the hit “Bills, Bills, Bills.” Now, Rowland has another bill to pay for: an IRS tab for $100,000 in unpaid back taxes.
According to Detroit News, Kelly Rowland is facing a lien against her oceanfront property in Miami, Florid with the New York City Register.
After Destiny’s Child disbanded, Kelly has released a couple of solo
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Earlier this year, there was a lot of heat over the UBS-IRS deal where thousands of taxpayers’ names were handed over to Uncle Sam for undisclosed overseas bank accounts. While the worst of the storm may have passed for now, it is imprudent for taxpayers with overseas bank accounts to let down their guards.
Last Tuesday, the IRS announced that it has dropped its case against UBS after the Swiss banking
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As the troubled economy begins its slow rebound, year-end tax planning is more important than ever, especially if you are one of the estimated 26 million Americans who needs tax relief from back taxes owed to the IRS. With the IRS enforcement budget at a record $5.5 billion, more people than ever are a potential target of the IRS and will need to know these valuable suggestions to avoid and
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Even if you can’t afford to pay your back taxes to the IRS, it is essential to avoid stiff penalties from the IRS and file all delinquent returns now. Every year, thousands (potentially millions) of taxpayers fail to file legally required tax returns. The act of not filing usually results in increasingly damaging problems as time goes by, such as additional interest, crippling penalties and IRS collections including levies on your
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Every year, hundreds of thousands (potentially millions) of taxpayers fail to file legally required tax returns. The longer people put off filing their tax returns, the more severe their IRS tax problems become. An important step in avoiding IRS tax trouble is to understand how the IRS approaches delinquent tax return penalties. Read on to learn more.
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Question: I filed my tax return late and was shocked when I saw my
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With only less than 2 months left before the year is over, I’d like to take a moment and re-capture some of our top blog posts from last month. These are the tax help blog posts that received the most visits–so in case you missed it the first time around, here comes the round-up:
What To Do Before the October 15th Tax Extension Deadline if You Need Tax Help for Unfiled
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If you find yourself nervous after reading all the tax relief scam stories on the news lately, you’re not alone. After all, how can you know who to trust to solve your IRS tax problems for good?
One of the best indicators of a tax relief firm’s competence is their tax debt settlement success rate. And here’s where the taxpayer needs to be extra careful–many tax relief firms will overstate their
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What’s worse than having IRS tax problems? How about ending up with even more tax problems and less money? As horrific as this scenario sounds, it happens to more average taxpayers every day as tax relief companies are actually scamming distressed taxpayers instead of helping them.
I was recently quoted in an AOL Daily Finance article: “Have Tax Problems? A Tax-Relief Firm May Only Add to Them” by Sheryl Nance-Nash about
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Someone needs to un-break Toni Braxton’s bank account.
The 43-year-old R&B singer, best known for her hit single “Un-Break My Heart,” owes $396,330 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a tax lien the federal government filed against Braxton.
In a bankruptcy petition, Braxton the told the court she is worth $1 million to $10 million but has between $10 million and $50 million in debt.
Ouch.
Braxton’s money and tax
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Employers must beware of the federal and state crackdowns on the use of independent contractors to avoid payroll tax problems and employment tax audits. But how do you distinguish between independent contractors and employees? More importantly, how does the IRS determine who owes unpaid employment taxes and who doesn’t? Consider these tips to make correct determinations of worker classifications and avoid the wrath of IRS audits for unpaid employment back taxes and
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Did you know: Congress has pumped an additional $400 million into the IRS enforcement budget for fiscal year 2010.
This allowed  the IRS to add 4,000 to 5,000 new revenue agents to assess and collect taxes. The International Monetary Fund has even gone as far as to call the United States bankrupt. With the U.S. fiscal gap growing and the IRS going after delinquent taxpayers to increase tax revenue, there is
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If you failed to file a tax return, for whatever reason, you still have a right to file a late tax return (also known as delinquent tax filing) no matter how late it’s filed!  Why should you file a delinquent tax return?  For one thing, it gets the IRS off your back.  Perhaps you failed to file your taxes a few years ago and the IRS never contacted you.  Well,
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Sometimes back taxes happen to good people. If you owe the IRS money for unpaid taxes, then you are probably feeling overwhelmed by the desire to stick your head in the sand and are in desperate need of professional back tax help. If you owe back taxes you can’t afford to pay, don’t panic. Check out these insider tax tips that can help you obtain immediate tax relief to help
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