The Los Angeles County Superior Court has decided that streaming video providers like Netflix are not subject to local video service provider fees. This decision comes after the City of Lancaster filed a class action lawsuit (City of Lancaster v. Netflix et al.),...
In the IRS’ Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Report, Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, reflects on the IRS’ progress and accomplishments over the last year. Between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021, $4 trillion in taxes were collected,...
Last week, the Department of Justice reported on several employment tax fraud cases. In Virginia, James C. Jones, Jr., an ambulance business owner, was arraigned and charged with multiple crimes including tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Mr. Jones allegedly...
Today marks the end of Charity Fraud Awareness Week, an international campaign that the IRS has recently joined to help bring attention to scams targeting charities. Unfortunately, charitable organizations are often victims of fraud, cybercrime, and scammers looking...
This week, the IRS granted $41 million to 34 Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) and 300 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) organizations. Both programs provide free assistance and counseling on federal return preparation: TCE to individuals 60 years and older,...
Oleg Tinkov, a Russian-born former U.S. citizen who renounced his U.S. citizenship three days after his assets rose to over one billion dollars, has agreed to pay over $500 million in taxes, penalties, and interest to the U.S. Treasury! Tinkov lied on his U.S. Initial...
Switzerland, Singapore, and South Dakota all have something in common…these jurisdictions are favored by the extremely wealthy for bank secrecy, which often includes tax evasion, money laundering, and other crimes including worker exploitation. In 2014, Trident Trust...
Recently the IRS released some tax tips for small business owners and self-employed individuals. One critical reminder for all business owners: correctly identify workers as either employees or independent contractors. Misclassifying an employee as an independent...
Times are changing, and more and more taxpayers are choosing to file their tax returns electronically – now 90% of all tax returns, 145 million in 2020, are electronically filed. Accordingly, at the end of this month, the IRS’ Fresno, California paper return...
Not surprisingly, in the EDD’s annual Labor Day Briefing the Department noted that registered nurses are the most in-demand occupations in California, along with operations managers for occupations identified as high-skilled. As we continue to recover form the...
