Posts Tagged ‘taxes’

Celebrity Tax Woes: R&B star R.Kelly owes more than $837,000 in delinquent federal taxes

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

It is important for taxpayers to know they are not alone when it comes to facing IRS problems. In fact, many celebrities have fallen victim to the woes of owing Uncle Sam and R. Kelly is no exception.
The Detroit News reports that R&B star, best known for his hit “I Believe I Can Fly” owes nearly a million in unpaid taxes.
The IRS filed an $837,442.59 tax lien against Kelly
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Tax News: IRS in Need of More Employees; Expect Process to Slow Down While Workload Amps Up

Monday, July 18th, 2011

The IRS has been making huge increases in its workload of audits and taking your tax payments and they won’t be stopping anytime soon.  TRS blogged back in March about the government’s pressure to close the whopping $345 billion tax deficit which in turned caused the IRS to increase audits by 11% last year-targeting both consumers and business owners. Arden Dale’s  article Why Paying Taxes Takes Longer from  SmartMoney, examines
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Tax Help News: How Your Taxes and W-2 will Be Affected by New Health Care Law

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I got an interesting email recently regarding the new health care law (see below for full email message) . The email FALSELY claims that the new legislation would require workers to pay income tax on the value of employer-provided health insurance. This is simply not the case.
It’s true that the value of employer-paid health insurance will be added to employees’ W-2 forms for information purposes, however, contrary to this
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