Tax Help News Round Up – Last Minute Tax Filing Tips, Surviving Audits, Offshore Accounts and Celebrity Tax Woes!

The latest edition of tax help news covering anything and everything tax! Check out some of the interesting tax news we’ve Stumble(d)Upon this week, including your pick of last, last minute tax tips, celebrity tax woes, the typical tax cheat, offshore tax regulation and more!

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Last minute tax tips for filing your returns – for all those procrastinators out there. Take your pick: last minute tax tips as offered on the New York Times Bucks blog OR 30 Last-Minute Tax Tips from SmartMoney on the Wall Street Journal.

TaxGirl reminds us that Tax Day is still April 18, 2011 no matter what you may have heard. So get those tax returns filed, there isn’t much time left and the IRS will expect them on time, shutdown or not!

The IRS is After the Osbournes – Oh oh, more celebrity tax woes! Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon owe a hefty $1.7 million in back taxes! Daughter Kelly Osbourne owes a separate $34k in taxes too, apparently life is not all glamor for the rich and the famous!

How The Self-Employed Can Survive an IRS Audit – If you’re self-employed and are currently staring at your tax return, fear not! Check out some great tips on how to handle this one! And if the IRS wants to meet you face-to-face, check out these 7 Ways to Persuade the IRS You are Right, whether over an audit or payment arrangements.

Who are those tax cheats you keep hearing about? Kelly Phillips Erb comments on a marketing study pointing towards: Tax Cheaters Tend to be Single, Young Men. Be wary of these dodgy characters.

But Why Do People Cheat on Their Taxes? Stuart P. Green discusses the moral, ethical and logistical elements of this occurrence.

The IRS offshore crack down continues! News this week: U.S. Targets HSBC Over Secrets Bank Accounts. Country of the week: India

Don’t underestimate IRS’s new foreign tax rules – The IRS is continuing to pursue offshore accounts. If you’re living or working abroad or have a bank account in a different country, make sure Uncle Sam knows about it or he might be dropping in for a visit!

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