Despite being the highest-paid athlete in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo skimps on his taxes. Last year, reports surfaced that the Portuguese soccer star owed more than 14.7 million euros (approximately $16.5 million U.S. dollars) in unpaid taxes in Spain. Because he thought he could cheat...
Dimas Chavez-Pina, 29, of Milwaukee plead guilty to theft of government money, aggravated ID theft, and being an illegal immigrant in connection with tax return fraud. According to the plea agreement, Chavez-Pina fraudulently obtained ITINs using the personal ID documents from citizens of Mexico and then...
Have you ever wondered what is on the IRS’s agenda? Well I went to a conference last week, and they gave us a little insight on what they are working on. Director of the IRS Field Collection Operations spoke on what we should expect from...
It is so very unfortunate that Mr. Lowell Hawthorne (CEO and founder of Golden Krust) shot and killed himself last week in his Bronx warehouse. As it turns out, the IRS was investigating him for possibly attempting to evade millions of dollars in taxes. A...
So we hear of people who don’t pay the IRS that go to jail, companies that don’t pay the IRS get shut down; well now, how about tax preparer’s that file fraudulent returns that go to jail? In California a local resident claimed to be a...
