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Singer Sean Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, owes $131,379.51 to the Internal Revenue Service in back taxes.
The amount, which was first disclosed by the celebrity news outlet TMZ, was listed on a tax lien filed against one of Kingston’s properties. And it isn’t the first time the IRS has pursued the singer for the taxes. Federal tax agents warned the singer: “We have made a demand for payment.”
Kingston,

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No doubt about it, the IRS is making headway in their efforts to bring Americans with unreported offshore accounts into tax compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and (FBAR) regulations. IRS enforcement and data sharing from European banks, has made it possible for the U.S. to gather account information on wealthy American clients; something just three years ago was impossible.
But an article in Forbes entitled Expats Lobby

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A major focus of the Obama Administration has been to reduce the “tax gap” (the difference between the amount of taxes reported and what the government actually collects). Nowhere has this become more obvious than with the President’s 2013 budget solicit.  A recentarticle in OMB Watch entitled Obama Proposes Exempting IRS from Budget Caps, reports on the Administration’s solicit to have some IRS enforcement spending be “excluded” from budget

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A Boone Count, Ky., man who evaded paying his federal income tax liability from 1995 to 2001 was sentenced today to 24 months in prison.
He was also ordered to pay approximately $2.4 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
From 1995 to 2001, William C. Shehan Jr., 45, failed to file federal income tax forms and diverted money that should have been paid in taxes into private business ventures and

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In another chapter of Swiss Banks versus the IRS, strong pressure from both U.S. and European governments, have forced Swiss lawmakers to take a stand. Yesterday, Switzerland announced it outlined proposals for how it aims to do the following: improve its reputation as a private global banking center.
comply with the exchange of tax information that includes requiring all offshore account holders to declare their taxable assets. A Wall Street Journal article titled

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Actress Lindsay Lohan, no stranger to off-screen troubles, was recently issued a tax lien for failing to pay both tax liabilities on both her 2009 and 2010 earnings amounting to $140,203.30.
An E! Online article Lindsay Lohan Evades Federal Taxes…Again! Working Out “Acceptable Arrangement” With IRS reports that the tax issued February 13 for both 2009 and 2010 earnings was assessed against her home in Encino, California and therefore making her

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A New Mexico state contractor was charged with five counts of tax evasion.
Shelda Sutton-Mendoza, 59, of Albuquerque, N.M., was owner and sole shareholder of NYSNC Environmental (NYSNC), an environmental cleanup and testing service established in 2000 and incorporated in October 2003. NYSNC contracted primarily with the New Mexico Environmental Department, where Sutton-Mendoza was employed in the Petroleum Storage Bureau for more than six years before leaving to establish NYSNC.
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IRS commissioner Doug Schulman announced on Thursday its IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of tax scams and “phishing” expeditions to warn taxpayers about scams that range from identity theft to return preparer fraud. This annual list is meant to provide the most recent advice for consumers to prevent tax problems on a year round basis. However, as tax day draws near, scams and schemes tend to peak as people get their

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Leslie W. Jacobs, 67, of Gates Mills, Ohio, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty to making and subscribing to false personal income tax returns. According to court records, Jacobs, a partner in a Cleveland law firm,filed joint income tax return on which he inflated his law firm business expense deductions and, as a result, falsely

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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.
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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.
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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.
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