Harris Parrots Trump’s No Tax on Tips Policy After Supporting IRS Shakedown of Hospitality Industry a Year Ago
In a surprising twist, Vice President Kamala Harris recently pledged to eliminate taxes on tips for service workers—a stance that mirrors a proposal former President Donald Trump introduced months earlier. This move…
Construction Firm Owner Admits Failing to Report $4.8 Million to IRS
LOS ANGELES – The owner of an Inland Empire business pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns that failed to report more than $4.8 million over a five-year period, resulting…
IRS Obtains Court Order Authorizing Summons For Records Relating To U.S. Taxpayers Who Failed To Report And Pay Taxes On Cryptocurrency Transactions
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David A. Hubbert, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner of…
Seffner Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud And Conspiracy To Impede And Defraud The IRS
Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Ricky Gonzales has pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to…
Used car salesman admits hiding commissions from IRS
ST. LOUIS – A used car salesman in Imperial, Missouri pleaded guilty Monday to three tax charges and admitted hiding more than $300,000 in sales commissions from the IRS. Donald Benck was…
NORQUIST: Manchin And The Democrats Are Making The IRS More Powerful Than Ever. Here’s How
NORQUIST: Manchin And The Democrats Are Making The IRS More Powerful Than Ever. Here’s How Grover Norquist on July 31, 2022 President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have decided to react to…
Democrats Plan To Shell Out Almost $80 Billion To Supersize The IRS
Democrats Plan To Shell Out Almost $80 Billion To Supersize The IRS Jack McEvoy on July 28, 2022 A new Democratic spending package will expand the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in…
Woonsocket Businessman Sentenced for Defrauding the IRS
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Woonsocket businessman described in court documents as a “vital cog” in a tax fraud conspiracy that defrauded the United States of millions of dollars was sentenced today to…
U.S. tax committees to question IRS chief over audits of ex-FBI officials
By David Lawder WASHINGTON – U.S. tax commissioner Charles Rettig will face questions from legislators over how two former FBI officials vilified by former President Donald Trump were targeted for intensive tax…
Former IRS Supervisor Who Scammed Gov’t Out Of Thousands Sentenced To Prison
Former IRS Supervisor Who Scammed Gov’t Out Of Thousands Sentenced To Prison Gabe Kaminsky on July 7, 2022 A former supervisor at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Philadelphia was handed a…
IRS chief asks Treasury watchdog to probe audits of ex-FBI officials
By David Lawder WASHINGTON – U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to investigate how two former FBI officials vilified by former President Donald Trump were…
Former IRS Employee Sentenced to Over One Year in Prison for Tax Evasion
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced that Wayne Garvin, 57, currently of Columbia, South…
Former IRS Employee in Fresno Indicted for Selling Morphine
FRESNO, Calif. — Margarita Aispuro-Camacho, 46, of Fresno, was arrested today after a federal grand jury indicted her for illegally selling morphine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents,…
Florida man sentenced for unlawfully accessing IRS system and fraudulently filing tax returns
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Keith Joseph, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today to 50 months of incarceration for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced. Joseph, age…
Watchdog Group Sues IRS Over Stonewalled Investigation Into Massive Tax Record Leak
Watchdog Group Sues IRS Over Stonewalled Investigation Into Massive Tax Record Leak Laurel Duggan on June 8, 2022 An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigation into a massive 2021 leak of taxpayer data…
Hammond Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing False IRS Returns, Making False Statements to IRS and Department of Education
NEW ORLEANS – KENISHA R. CALLAHAN, age 44, and a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to one count of filing a false…
Tickfaw Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing False IRS Returns
NEW ORLEANS – CHERYL L. KINCHEN, age 40, a resident of Tickfaw, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on May 31, 2022 to two counts of filing false tax returns, in her personal capacity, before…
St. Simons man admits bomb threat to IRS office in New York
BRUNSWICK, GA: A Glynn County man awaits sentencing after admitting in U.S. District Court that he threatened to blow up an Internal Revenue Service office in New York. Benjamin Stasko, 34, of…
Tax Preparer, Husband Sentenced for Defrauding IRS Out of $3.3 Million
The owners of a Duncanville tax preparation business were sentenced to a combined five nd a half years in federal prison for defrauding the IRS out of more than $3.3 million, announced…
Former CPA Sentenced for Submitting False Documents to the IRS
LONDON, Ky.– A former Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Charles Marshall Stivers, 59, of Manchester, Kentucky, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom,…
Two Owners of Tony Luke’s Philadelphia Cheesesteak Restaurant Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Anthony Lucidonio, Sr., 84, of Philadelphia, PA, and Nicholas Lucidonio, 56, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court…
TDEC Provides to State Tax Agencies What the IRS Needs to Resolve Its Paper Backlog
OAKLAND, Md., April 25, 2022 — While the regular tax filing season ended last Monday, the hard work of tax processing slogs on for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The chronically underfunded,…
Jim Jordan Says IRS Can’t Be Trusted After ‘Partisan’ Leak Investigation Stonewalls
Jim Jordan Says IRS Can’t Be Trusted After ‘Partisan’ Leak Investigation Stonewalls Laurel Duggan on April 23, 2022 Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said Americans couldn’t trust the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…
IRS Seeking Fugitive Who Made $1 Million from Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns
by Clarissa Cutrell, IRS NEW YORK, NY – IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) seeks assistance locating a fugitive charged with conspiracy to steal public funds, theft of public funds and aggravated identity…
U.S. Attorney And IRS Warn Potential Tax Cheats To Timely File Accurate And Complete Tax Returns
SCRANTON – With the deadline for filing federal individual income tax returns rapidly approaching, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Field Office, IRS Criminal Investigation…
Woonsocket Businessman Admits Defrauding the IRS of Over Two Million Dollars
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Woonsocket businessman today admitted in federal court that he participated in scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service of more than two million dollars in taxes, announced United…
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