Posts Tagged ‘income taxes’

How Will FICA Affect Your Paycheck?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

I’ve blogged before on President Obama’s plan to raise income taxes on Americans making more than $250,000 a year.
But something that has not been in the spotlight quite as much is Obama’s proposal to raise the cap on the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). FICA is a tax that funds Social Security and Medicare.
Brian Compton, my associate and the President of Tax Resolution Services, was recently interviewed by Craig Clough
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Mass. Man Evaded $2 Million Tax Bill

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

A Newton, Mass., man received one year in prison for every million of the $2 million in income taxes he evaded.
Robert D. Epstein, 61, pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to report as income approximately $5,952,000 in money that Epstein secretly removed from his law partnership. By failing to record the money he took from the partnership, Epstein evaded approximately $2,225,000 in federal income taxes.
He was sentenced to two
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