I recently noticed several news agencies reporting on how the IRS refund delay is angering taxpayers who filed their tax returns early and electronically expecting to receive their refund within 15 days and are still waiting. According to an article in Accounting Today, entitled IRS Experiences Further Tax Refund Delay Problems many early filers received a notice of acknowledgement the IRS received their return. But later when they checked the
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In a recent blog post called IRS Warns of Dirty Dozen Tax Scams, I covered in detail the top four most common and pervasive tax scams currently permeating the tax system. It’s important to prevent IRS tax issues from the start and covering each tax scam separately could go a long way to help consumers first recognize then steer clear of “IRS deals” and false promises that would end up
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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is frustrated with tax delinquency and last week introduced legislation aimed at those with back taxes. His message: pay up or face the consequences.
According to the Forbes’ article: Owe IRS Taxes, Lose Your Passport, Senator Hatch’s proposed laws are intended to force tax avoiding Americans to deal with their tax debt or suffer the following:

If you owe more than $50k to the IRS in back taxes
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IRS commissioner Doug Schulman announced on Thursday its IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of tax scams and “phishing” expeditions to warn taxpayers about scams that range from identity theft to return preparer fraud. This annual list is meant to provide the most recent advice for consumers to prevent tax problems on a year round basis. However, as tax day draws near, scams and schemes tend to peak as people get their
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Business owners preparing for tax day, take note. A Reuters article entitled IRS Clarifies 1099-K Reporting for 2011 Taxes reported recent IRS clarification for how to report the new 1099-K forms on your 2011 tax returns.  The Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008 created the Form 1099-K to help the IRS keep better track of electronic payments.  Because most business entities receive payments electronically, it’s more important than ever they
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Actress Lindsay Lohan, no stranger to off-screen troubles, was recently issued a tax lien for failing to pay both tax liabilities on both her 2009 and 2010 earnings amounting to $140,203.30.
An E! Online article Lindsay Lohan Evades Federal Taxes…Again! Working Out “Acceptable Arrangement” With IRS reports that the tax issued February 13 for both 2009 and 2010 earnings was assessed against her home in Encino, California and therefore making her
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In a recent post from the ongoing story of the IRS versus Swiss banks, Wegelin & Company and three of its executives were indicted for helping wealthy Americans hide $1.2 Billion in assets from the IRS. Since I wrote that last post, the story has morphed into Wegelin & Co. now facing U.S. criminal charges for their failure to appear in a Manhattan Court to address those charges. As Bloomberg
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The nation’s five largest banks negotiated last week with 49 states to pay a total of $26 billion to settle their negligent and abusive foreclosure practices and to change the way they handle foreclosures in the future. A Fox News Cleveland article entitled What the Foreclosure Settlement Means for You addressed this news and how it impacts homeowners.  According to the article, “It’s not clear whether you would have to
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Question:
I have several years of unfiled tax returns and owe around $25 thousand dollars in back taxes to the IRS for my small business. I know I need to take care of this huge burden but I’m overwhelmed, what help is out there get me out of this mess?
Answer:
First, addressing your IRS tax issues right now is the first step towards finding the tax relief you need. There is a
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It is always a pleasure to be able to speak to others about the work I do as a tax resolution expert.
I recently had the unique opportunity to be interviewed by Opportunist Magazine’s Managing Editor, Leslie Stone for her article Talking With the Tax Expert-Michael Rozbruch.  She asked about the business of tax resolution, a subject of which I am WELL informed. The questions ranged from how my early business
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The Internal Revenue Service recently proposed new guidelines aimed at providing tax relief for more innocent spouses who request equitable relief from their income tax liability. A Forbes article entitled IRS Lowers The Bar For Innocent Spouse Relief, details how the new proposals address the criteria used in making innocent spouse relief determinations in equitable relief cases and adjust the factors used in granting equitable relief.
Since 2003, the Internal Revenue
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An article from TMZ titled Lil’ Kim Breaks the Million Dollar Tax Lien Mark reported on rapper Lil Kim and her current $1,026,862.42 IRS tax lien. Lil’ Kim appears to be no stranger to tax troubles as hers are well documented and stretch out over a ten year period. A spokesperson for Lil’ Kim said that she “hired professional attorneys to handle this matter” and that “she, along with her
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An article in Boston.com called Too Late to Lower Your 2011 Taxes? Not At All listed a few of the deductions a business owner can still take advantage of this year.
Here are three Tax Help Tips that every business owner needs to know about for this tax year:

1. Fund a Retirement Account
You can reduce your 2011 taxes by starting a retirement plan or Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) for you
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A recent article in Forbes, With Indictments, The IRS Will Get More Data From the Swiss stated that banks prosecuted by U.S. authorities moved money to smaller, discreet establishments such as Wegelin & Co..  Because of this, the U.S. authorities have stepped up their determination to go after IRS tax cheats and the banks that are hiding them, relentlessly.  With large AND small banks like Wegelin & Co. facing indictments,
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The latest chapter of the IRS versus the Swiss Banks, reveals U.S. Prosecutors taking on the oldest Swiss bank of them all: Wegelin & Co.,
An article in the Wall Street Journal entitled Swiss Bank Wegelin Indicted on U.S. Tax Charges, outlines the criminal charges filed by U.S. Prosecutors on February 2, 2012 against Wegelin & Co., Switzerland’s oldest bank (founded in 1741) alleging that Wegelin knowingly aided wealthy Americans in
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