Every month at Tax Resolution Services we choose a very special Tax Client Of The Month.  It’s our way of acknowledging good friends and saying “thanks” to those who support our business with referrals, word of mouth and repeat business.
This month’s Tax Client Of The Month is David & Lynn K.
David & Lynn K. owed the IRS over $58,000 in back taxes when they sought help.  After several months
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At Tax Resolution Services, Co. (TRS) we are committed to providing exceptional client care. A new video clip on The Blaze TV highlights one of Glenn Beck’s viewers who shared his TRS experience with the nationally televised show. This satisfied client said that a TRS quality assurance manager was with him every step of the way to make sure his case was on track. His original tax debt amounted to nearly $50,000.
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An Iowa woman was sentenced to 21 months in prison for two counts of filing false tax returns.
Regina Jimenez, 60, of Clinton, Iowa, operated AA Accounting & Tax Services Inc. in Clinton, Iowa, from approximately 2007 through 2011. Jimenez used the business to facilitate the theft of over $300,000 from a client who believed that Jimenez would use the money to pay the client’s taxes.
Jimenez instead used the money for
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A former mayor in Florida and his wife were charged with criminal tax offenses and making false statements to federal agents.
According to the indictment, former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, 48, and his wife, Raiza Villacis Robaina, 39, sought to defraud the IRS by conducting financial transactions that concealed their true nature.
Julio Robaina allegedly filed false corporate income returns for the years 2005 through 2007, a time when he was mayor
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Question: I’ve read about the Offer in Compromise and the Installment Agreement. How do I determine which one is right for me?

Answer: This is a great question, and an important one. While I can’t tell you with certainty which is best for you without meeting you in person and discussing your financial situation in detail, I can tell you about each program and these explanations may help you in
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When Mathew Knowles managed the career of his superstar singer of a daughter, Beyonce, he made millions.
So many millions, in fact, that Knowles owes the IRS $1.2 million in back taxes, according to celebrity news site TMZ.
The IRS filed a tax lien against Beyonce’s pops for $485,575.95 in 2010 and $728,004.89 in 2011.
Beyonce started her singing career with the group Destiny’s Child. Mathew Knowles managed the group, which became one
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Sharing client success stories is important because it shows that IRS tax problems can happen to anyone including hard-working honest people, often through no fault of their own.
A new video clip on The Blaze TV highlights a viewer who called Tax Resolution Services, Co. (TRS) after hearing Host Glenn Beck talk about client success stories on his program. This viewer owed more than $33,000 in back taxes but TRS was able
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As if the intense scrutiny the IRS has faced over the last month wasn’t enough, a new report has emerged about wasteful IRS spending that has lawmakers demanding more answers from the new acting IRS Commissioner, Danny Werfel.
An NBC article and video clip from NBC titled: “2010 IRS conference featured ‘happiness expert,’ $17K art session” highlights a specific 2010 Internal Revenue Service conference in California where goofy, expensive video parodies were
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Enforcement is up significantly at the Internal Revenue Service, which is very bad news for anyone cheating on their taxes.
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The numbers are up.
Way up.
In fiscal year 2012, the Internal Revenue Service launched 5,125 investigations, recommended 3,701 prosecutions, and convicted 2,634 on tax charges, according to the annual report from IRS Criminal Investigation.
All of those numbers are up significantly over the previous year.
“This annual report showcases some of the many significant
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An Arizona woman will spend the next 30 months in federal prison after admitting that she and others conspired to defraud the U.S. government by filing false tax returns that wrongly claimed refunds.
Shaneika Earline Sims, 30, of Casa Grande, Arizona, must also pay $403,002 in restitution and, upon completion of her prison time, serve a 36-month term of supervised release.
Sims and others filed at least 150 false federal individual income
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A Kentucky construction company owner pleaded guilty to evading payment of $177,634 in federal income taxes due for the tax years 1999 through 2001.
Darrell Mathis, of Warren County, Kentucky, and owner of Tri-State Construction, falsely submitted an IRS Offer in Compromise form in which he concealed his personal assets, including vehicles and boats, and ownership of his business, Tri-State Construction.
Mathis concealed his ownership in the company from the IRS by
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An Alabama man was indicted for his part in a scheme to collect millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service using false tax returns.
Douglas Ervin Dent, 66, of Birmingham, Alabama, allegedly filed 20 false income tax returns in his own name and on behalf of others between April 2008 and October 2009. Dent knew that he and the other taxpayers were not entitled to the $6.2 million in refunds
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A husband and wife from Greer, South Carolina, were sentenced for filing false tax returns. Julie Greene Tucker, 52, received 33 months in prison and her husband, James Dean Tucker, 54, received eight months of house arrest and five years of probation. The Tuckers were ordered to pay $191,049 restitution to IRS. Julie Tucker embezzled from her employer and did not report the money as income.

A Kansas man who owned a strip club received three years of federal probation for filing false tax returns and underpaying his federal income taxes.
Kirk Roberts, 49, Salina, Kansas, was also ordered to pay $153,510, the full amount of taxes he owes.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of filing false income tax returns for tax years 2006, 2007 and 2008. In his plea, he admitted that while he was the
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A Louisiana lawyer pleaded guilty to making false, fictitious and fraudulent claims to the Internal Revenue Service in an attempt to receive more than $9.7 million in tax refunds.
According to court records, Francis C. Broussard, 53, of West Monroe, Louisiana, had his accountant prepare his 2005 through 2007 tax returns — but Broussard never filed them.
In 2009, Broussard went to a different tax preparer to have his personal tax returns
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