A lawyer in Port Huron, Mich., was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion.
David Douglas Black, 49, owner of Black, Black and Black law firm also was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a special assessment of $100.
According to court records, during the 2004 tax year, Black diverted income from his law firm by using checks made out to him, his wife or
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Celebrity rapper and actor Ja Rule was sentenced to 28 months in prison and ordered to pay 1.1 million dollars in unpaid taxes on Monday. Ja Rule was quoted by the Associated Press as saying; “I was a young man who made a lot of money — I’m getting a little choked up — I didn’t know how to deal with these finances, and I didn’t have people to guide
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Actor Wesley Snipes’ request for an appeal for a 3-year prison term was rejected by the Supreme Court in the beginning of June. Snipes was sentenced to prison until 2013 after his 2008 trial conviction of three misdemeanor charges of willful failure to file income tax returns from 1999 to 2001. Tax Resolution first blogged about Snipes’ IRS tax problems here.
If you owe money to the IRS, especially $25,000 or
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We blog about a lot of IRS tax cases where people try to cheat on their taxes and lose.  If you don’t want to see your name and tax case on our  tax blog, I don’t blame you!  It’s never too late – and in your best interest – to resolve your tax problems today!  Tax Resolution Services can help you so you don’t end up as another tax cheat
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Jan Van Dusen, a volunteer for a cat rescue program, recently went to battle with Tax Court to deduct expenses for the care of some 70 plus cats. The article Stray Cat Strut: Woman Beats IRS published in the Wall Street Journal outlines how Ms. Van Dusen won her case against the tax court in her argument for the deduction for over $12,000 in bills accumulated for the care of
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As we all know by now, the IRS has increased its level of scrutiny of tax payers and audits are increasing. Lara Saunders (Wall Street Journal) wrote an article called Rich Are Targeted in IRS Audit Offensive addressing how the wealthy are being audited at a rate double or triple what was seen in the previous decade.
According to Saunder’s article the wealthiest Americans are being targeted increasingly by the IRS
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Don’t act completely surprised when the IRS files a tax lien against you or your business!  If you’ve been evading taxes or hiding income, the IRS will seek you out eventually.   Avoiding taxes only leads to hefty fines and prison time.  Settling back taxes is not as daunting as it seems as long as you have a tax professional service in your corner.  Tax Resolution Services can help you settle
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Now that tax day has passed, some of you may be hearing from the IRS for an IRS tax audit.  Did you know that how you answer the questions in an IRS tax audit can dictate your fate?  IRS tax audits are designed to catch those that have been evading taxes or trying to defraud the IRS.  If you are being audited by the IRS, hiring a professional tax attorney is
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Here they go again.  Hollywood stars reminding us they are regular people just like everyone else. Fox News reporter, Natalie Crnosija recently revealed some of Hollywood’s biggest tax evaders in her article Hollywood Stars Who Owe Uncle Sam Big Bucks in Back Taxes.  To name a few: Nicolas Cage—weighing in at $13.3 million, Pam Anderson—Dancing with the Stars despite a $1.7 million tax debt, and Joe Francis, founder of Girls
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Edward Finley, 67, of Spearfish, S.D., pleaded guilty to one count of an indictment that charged him with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Finely had falsified tax returns for another person for the years 2001 to 2003. The investigation was conducted by IRS. Finley faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
I have blogged about many IRS Tax Cases.  It is obvious that
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To prepare taxpayers for unexpected disasters and to protect important tax documents, the IRS has issued detailed guidelines on how taxpayers need to duplicate their records in order to safeguard their financial welfare.  As part of the National Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 21-27), IRS encouraged taxpayers to keep an electronic version of their tax records at a location that is separate from the location of the original documents. Since the
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The traveling secretary for the New York Yankees pleaded guilty in New Haven, Conn., to one count of filing a false tax return.
The federal government charged David Szen, 56, of Brookfield, Conn., with failing to report tips from players and coaches as income.
Those tips ranged from a few hundred dollars to $10,000. In pleading guilty, Szen admitted that he failed to report approximately $53,350 in additional income in his individual
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