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When the founder of International Investment Advisors LLC passed away in 2001, he was worth approximately $24 million. What his family may not have realized at the time was that over half of that fortune was held in overseas bank accounts and taxes had not been paid...
In 2012, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2012-18 directing that automatic gratuities-tips added by the restaurant to the bill of large parties-- be classified as service charges, which are treated as regular wages subject to payroll tax withholding, rather than tips to...
The Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation announce a guilty plea by Aaron Cohen of Encino, California. Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to conspiracy to defraud the United...
The Department of Justice has announced a program encouraging Swiss banks to cooperate in ongoing U.S. investigations of the use of foreign bank accounts to commit tax evasion. The program is available only to banks not currently under criminal investigation by the...
The IRS has issued proposed regulations to raise the user fees for installment agreements and offers in compromise on January 1, 2014. For more information, click here.
On August 29, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their marriages, will be treated as married for all federal tax purposes. The ruling applies...
The Internal Revenue Service has opened a new online registration system for financial institutions that need to register with the IRS under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).Financial institutions that must register with the IRS to meet their FATCA...
For Truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles, the next federal highway use tax return is due on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. This due date generally applies to Form 2290 and the accompanying tax payment for the tax year that begins on July 1, 2013, and ends...
California taxpayers may be interested to know that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently released its annual report on whether the IRS is in compliance with Section 6501(c)(4)(B) of the Tax Code. The IRS is supposed to give taxpayers...
The IRS is contacting small businesses based on a determination that close to $450 billion of taxes goes uncollected and approximately $140,000 billion of that amount is owed by small businesses. By identifying small businesses with high credit card sales, the IRS is...
