Posts Tagged ‘IRS Cases’

IRS Oops: $110,000 Tax Refund Deposited into Man’s Checking Account

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Laguna Beach resident Stephen McDow woke up one day to find that the IRS had deposited a refund of $110,000 into his checking account. And so he spent it; Over the course of a year McDow spent more than half of the money in paying off his student loan debt, his mortgage and towards the purchase of a new. The catch… the refund did not belong to McDow and it
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Famous Tax Attorney Continues to Win Cases… From the Grave

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

As noted in the Forbes article by William P. Barrett, From The Grave, Tax Lawyer To Rich Beats IRS Again, the memorable Chicago tax lawyer Burton W. Kanter continues to win case after case against the Internal Revenue Service even after death.
Kanter was one of the leading tax attorneys in the United States and senior editor of the Journal of Taxation.  He is famous for escaping years of his own
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Construction Co. Owner Gets 10 Years in Prison

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The owner of a large construction management company has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after underpaying his company’s payroll taxes by nearly $3 million over a 10-year period.
Lucky Mata, 47, of West Palm Beach, Fla., and owner of Kodiak Construction and Management, was convicted of multiple charges relating to his evasion of federal payroll taxes. Kodiak underpaid its federal payroll taxes by nearly $3 million between 1994 and
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