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Michael Reiss, New Jersey doctor, professor and medical researcher, was sentenced on January 11, 2012 for failing to report his offshore (UBS) bank accounts. According to the IRS, Reiss was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center for failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) with the IRS. Reiss pleaded guilty in August 2011 and agreed to pay back taxes of at least $400,000

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A Dora, Ala., woman has been charged with tax fraud for her role at a medical clinic she managed and partly owned. Carol Twilley, 43, allegedly failed to account for and pay to the IRS the federal income taxes withheld and Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes due to the UnitedStates on behalf of Horse Creek Family Medicine Inc. and its employees from November 2004 to January 2006. She faces

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Shenita Nicole James, 33, of Montgomery, Ala., pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false and fraudulent federal income tax returns. James was employed as an office manager and income tax preparer at We Finance Auto Sales in Montgomery in 2008 and 2009. We Finance Auto Sales prepared income tax returns for individuals who could choose to use their tax refunds to purchase or make down payments for automobiles.
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A lawyer in Port Huron, Mich., was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion.
David Douglas Black, 49, owner of Black, Black and Black law firm also was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a special assessment of $100.
According to court records, during the 2004 tax year, Black diverted income from his law firm by using checks made out to him, his wife or

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An article in Bloomberg entitled IRS Called Easy on Criminal Tax Evaders in Watchdog’s Critique outlines Nina Olson of the National Taxpayer Advocate’s concerns that intentional tax evaders get more IRS help than those who weren’t intending to hide money from the U.S.government. Olson warns that future IRS collection efforts could be jeopardized due to confusion over the treatment of accidental tax evaders. The IRS sees

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A Colorado Springs, Colo., couple were sentenced to criminal obstruction and filing false income tax returns.
Gary Neuger, 56, was sentenced to serve 24 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, along with paying $393,791.20 in restitution to the IRS. Beth Neuger, 54 and Gary’s wife, was sentenced to serve three years of probation, with the first 10 months in home detention.  She was also ordered to pay

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The head of the Internal Revenue Service described how the tax-collecting agency will place more pressure on tax cheats and companies that facilitate cheating. It’s time for tax cheats to worry.
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The Internal Revenue Service is “turning up the pressure” on tax cheats.
Those were the exact words from IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman when he spoke in December at the IRS/George Washington University 24th Annual Institute.
The IRS will direct much of the

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Reuters reports that three explosive devices blew up outside the Naples offices of Equitalia, a state agency that collects overdue taxes and fines, breaking windows but injuring no one on Monday night, a police official told Reuters: Police said no group had claimed responsibility for the attack on the building on Corso Meridionale near Naples central [...]

A Gilbert, Ariz., woman was sentenced to 78 months in prison for evading more than $3 million in taxes on income earned from real estate commissions and land sales.
Sue J. Taylor, 67, was found guilty by a federal jury on April 28, 2011, of four felony counts of tax evasion and fourmisdemeanor counts of willful failure to file tax returns. Taylor was taken into custody at the conclusion of

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This Tuesday, a deadline passed in which 11 Swiss banks were given an IRS ultimatum to hand over account information and pay billions in fines to avoid US tax evasion prosecution. However, what the banks have not divulged are the claims that they would also have to provide all correspondence of their offshore clients over the last 11 years. An online article from “US tax “ultimatum” has Swiss banks sweating”

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Following a three-day trial, Douglas M. Cavanaugh, Jr., 45, formerly of Binghamton, N.Y., was convicted of six counts of filing false claims for tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
Cavanaugh was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport shortly after he arrived on a flight from Australia, where he resided. Evidence presented during the trial showed that Cavanaugh knowingly made and presented to the IRS six claims for payments of refunds

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Many Americans like preparing their taxes every year; it helps them feel in control of their finances and they don’t want to pay someone else to do it. With a tough economy still lurking and the availability of low-cost often free tax preparation software, many are inclined tocut their basic costs, and doing their own taxes is one place they believe they can save. If a taxpayer has a

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Richard Werdiger, a former client of Swiss bank UBS, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. He had hid more than $7.1 million at UBS and evaded nearly $400,000 of taxes.
Werdiger pleaded guilty in March 2011 and agreedto pay a civil penalty of more than $3.8 million for his failure to report his overseas accounts to the IRS.
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A woman in Denver who operated a prostitution business was sentenced to time served, followed by two years of supervised release, for tax evasion in connection to her illegal business.
According to the plea agreement, in approximately May 2005, Brenda L. Stewart, 36, agreed to purchase a prostitution business in which she was employed, known as Denver Sugar and Denver Players.
Stewart created an entity called Phoenix Media and Consulting, LLC. This entity

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Bow Wow, a 24-year-old rapper whose real name is Shad Gregory Moss, owes the Internal Revenue Service nearly $100,000.
According to TMZ, the federal government filed a tax lien against Bow Wow in Florida for $91,105.61 in unpaid taxes from the year 2006.
Formerly known by the stagename Lil’ Bow Wow, the rapper released his first album, Beware of Dog, at age 13. He has also appeared in a number of

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Karen St. Pierre, of Barrington, R.I., pleaded guilty to one count of willfully filing a false individual tax return.
According to court documents, St. Pierre owned and operated the House of Windsor, a jewelry store in Newport, R.I., which in 2004 generated about $632,522 in gross receipts. On April 15, 2005, St. Pierre filed a false individual income tax return that reported, in part, that the gross receipts generated by the

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With the holidays approaching, it’s a good time to take stock and consider your taxes and financial life — and take time to correct the mistakes.
Thanksgiving just passed, and the holiday season is now upon us.
That means the year is almost over, and with it another tax year.
You’ve been here before, many times actually. We all have. But now is the time — this is the year — to start

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A Brookline, Mass., ophthalmologist was sentenced for his failure to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and for obstructing an IRS audit.
Mark S. Hughes, 50, received one year and a day in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $60,000 fine. Hughes paid the IRS $1.75 million in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to tax evasion and obstruction

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From Kelly Phillips-Erb aka TaxGirl: Talk about the naked truth. Fans of beleaguered artist Ai Weiwei have tapped the power of the internet to show their support… by posing naked. Ai Weiwei was charged with tax evasion earlier this year, a charge that he claims is related to his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government. [...]

Doris Ruiz, of Minneapolis, Minn., was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and ten counts of failure to account for and pay over federal employment taxes. The indictment alleges that from 2005 to 2007 Ruiz diverted $152,292.44 in payroll taxes by instructing employees to stop preparing tax return forms.
Ruiz is the owner of Olen Staff Company, a temporary work agency in Minneapolis. If convicted, she faces

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