On October 7, 2013, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 576 into law, authorizing a pilot program to create the "Revenue Recovery and Collaborative Enforcement Team" (RRCET) consisting of an alliance primarily between the California Department of Justice (DOJ),...
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FinCEN Issues Advisory to Financial Institutions Concerning Financial Action Task Force’s Updated Lists of Jurisdictions With Deficiencies
Today the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an advisory to financial institutions to draw attention to two lists of jurisdictions that were recently updated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).In the first list, the FATF identifies...
Songstress Kelis paid off nearly $400K in back taxes to IRS
People around the country and here in California often see news stories about celebrities that are in trouble with the IRS. When celebrities fail to pay their taxes, the amount of back taxes they owe tends to run in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of...
City of Los Angeles Offers Delinquent Businesses a Tax Amnesty
The City of Los Angeles announced a tax amenesty program for qualified taxpayers owing Business, Utility Users Taxes (Telephone, Electricity, Gas), Commercial Tenant's Occupancy, Transient Occupancy, and /or Parking Occupancy Taxes. The amnesty program is being...
Ways to handle California tax debt
There are times when taxpayers are unable to meet their tax obligations to their home state. Just as the federal government has ways for individuals and businesses to deal with tax debt, states do as well. There are four main ways used by most states, including...
Revocation of California tax breaks leaves many with tax debt
Five years ago, the state of California offered small business owners tax breaks if they opened specific types of businesses. In Dec. 2012, the tax breaks were ruled unconstitutional by a court. As a result, the small businesses that once benefited from the tax breaks...
SWISS LAYWER PLEADS GUILTY TO US TAX CRIMES
On Friday, August 16, 2013, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Swiss lawyer Edgar Paltzer pled guilty to conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and other to evade federal income taxes and file false tax returns. Mr. Paltzer worked...
Time does run out for IRS to collect back taxes
There may be many people in California who don't know that the IRS only has so much time to collect taxes. The statute of limitations on collecting back taxes is 10 years. After that time, taxpayers are no longer liable for the taxes, but getting to the 10 year mark...
IRS says Mary J. Blige owes more than $3.4 million in back taxes
According to the IRS, singer Mary J. Blige hasn't paid her federal income taxes for 2009 through 2011. That amounts to more than $3.4 million in back taxes it says she owes. The IRS filed a tax lien was filed against Blige back in February of this year.R&B fans in...
Senate votes to collect tax debt on Internet purchases
For decades now local businesses say they have been losing sales to online companies that aren't required to collect sales tax. Now, the U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would collect tax debt on internet purchases at the time the purchase is made. Not only would...
