A rare precedent-setting win against the IRS earlier this year is making the lucky taxpayer something of a folk hero among those whom fortune hasn’t favored…
Updated: As the day progressed, it appeared that embattled New York Governor Eliot Spitzer might not resign from office as quickly as some have predicted, despite allegations that he may…
Updated: The investigation that led to this week’s shocking revelations about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the respected former state attorney general who reportedly linked up with a high-priced prostitute,…
Those who prepare tax returns for wealthy individuals should be especially careful this year, experts warn as next month’s 2007 filing deadline approaches. That’s because the chance of being audited…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a convicted taxpayer who claimed he owed no taxes on a distribution from his corporation because it had no earnings and…
Liechtenstein is a small country the size of Washington, D.C., wedged between Austria and Switzerland. But it has been big news recently as a growing number of countries focus on…
Another New York lawyer reportedly has claimed that Long Island school districts often list their legal counsel as employees, allowing them to qualify for government pensions and health benefits even…
A two-week probe by German authorities has netted nearly 200 people who reportedly confessed to setting up bank accounts in Liechtenstein to avoid paying required taxes.
Actor Nicolas Cage is fighting an Internal Revenue Service determination that he and a company he owns wrongly claimed $3.3 million in deductions for limos, meals, gifts, his Gulfstream jet…
Updated: A lawyer who was reported as simultaneously working as a full-time employee for five different Long Island school districts in order to qualify for a government pension and other…
Judges on a 9th Circuit panel hearing a New York couple’s appeal of an adverse Internal Revenue Service tax ruling this week reportedly appeared sympathetic to the couple’s claim that…
A former partner at New York City’s Kaye Scholer who argued a tax case before the U.S. Supreme Court has been fined $10,000 for failing to file a state tax…
Actor Wesley Snipes was acquitted of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges in Ocala, Fla., Friday, but found guilty of three minor counts of failing to file a tax return.
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