Part of mature thinking is being able to weigh the odds. This doesn’t mean gambling. It means knowing the likelihood that something will happen and tailoring actions accordingly to attain specific goals. In this post, we will consider tax audits as an example of this. It makes sense for a […]
McDonald’s came under fire on Tuesday after allegations from the French magazine L’Express claimed the food chain was under investigation by tax authorities for failing to pay taxes on 2.2 billion euros ($3 billion) of income from its 314 French locations. The restaurant denied the allegations found in the magazine’s […]
The identity of one healthcare entity that filed a class action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in March over allegedly seizing private records of 10 million Americans has been revealed. The lawsuit came after an extensive investigation into the company’s owner, who was indicted last summer on 13 counts […]
In an unusual turn of events, Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner was shown mercy by a federal judge on Tuesday after being sentenced to two years of probation for failing to pay income taxes on millions of dollars he hid in an offshore Swiss bank account. U.S. District Judge Charles […]
The Internal Revenue Service is widely known by its three-letter abbreviation, IRS. Keep in mind, however, that there are tax-related scams out there that can try to capitalize on the agency’s name. Such scams are especially common this time of year, as another tax-filing season gets underway. In this post, […]
A Wellington accountant found guilty of providing false tax returns and misleading information to the Inland Revenue will no longer enjoy the benefits of name suppression. Imran Mohammad Kamal was granted name suppression until January 10 as part of a ruling made by the Wellington High Court on December 19. […]
Mireitha Minangi, Ilala’s Regional Police Commander vowed to investigate claims that Burgurini police officers have denied Tanzania Revenue Authority access to a container belonging to Gongo la Mboto Baptist Church that is believed to have evaded tax. Minangi made it clear in an interview with the ‘Daily News’ that her […]
In part one of this post, we noted that taxpayers in Texas may be adversely affected by the failure of Congress to continue a long-standing tax break for the payment of state and local sales taxes. As we explained in our January 9 post, Congress has historically allowed a deduction […]
With bitcoin’s phenomenal success this year, many are left to wonder how the virtual currency will be taxed. Released in 2009 by an unknown person or group known only by Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin is the most prominent of several “virtual currencies,” and is maintained by a decentralized network of computers […]
Ty Warner, the billionaire responsible for the creation of the popular Beanie Babies toy is hoping that a federal judge will show mercy and sentence him to probation rather than prison for tax evasion. The 69-year-old acknowledged that he failed to report millions of dollars of interest income from an […]