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Circle Industries owners guilty of tax fraud
Lawyer News 10/04/2007[##_1L|1180611341.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]An Alpharetta father and son who ran a company that worked on the Olympic Village in Atlanta and their bookeeper have all been convicted of tax fraud on Wednesday. A federal jury has returned ...
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Fla.: Property tax amendment rejected
Lawyer News 09/26/2007[##_1L|1265268097.jpg|width="128" height="81" alt=""|_##]A tax-slashing amendment is off the Jan. 29 presidential primary ballot -- at least temporarily -- after a judge Monday ruled an accompanying explanation for voters is unconstitutionally mislea...
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IRS May Lose Billions Through Bad IDs
Lawyer News 09/11/2007The Internal Revenue Service may be losing hundreds of millions of dollars because it won't spend the time and money to match millions of income statements with incorrect or missing identification numbers to existing tax accounts, an IRS watchdog sai...
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Local judge to hear property tax class action suit
Lawyer News 08/08/2007Hancock County Circuit Court Judge Richard Culver spent two hours this morning in private chambers with attorneys representing the Marion County homeowners who filed a class action lawsuit challenging property assessments and the county assessor's of...
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Tiny Tax Bill Gives Couple Big Trouble
Lawyer News 07/17/2007[##_1L|1362325782.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]A missing property tax bill for $1.63 has given Kermit and Dolores Atwood "seven years of emotional hell" in a fight to keep their home. The bill was sent to a defunct address in 1996 and retu...
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DOJ Seeks to Ban Two NC Tax Attorneys
Lawyer News 06/20/2007The United States has sued two federal income tax preparers and their business, seeking to bar them from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government’s civil injunction complaint...
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Court Bars Illinois Woman from Preparing Tax Returns
Lawyer News 05/05/2007A federal court in Chicago, Ill., has permanently barred Bertha Steverson of Chicago from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The court found that Steverson, the owner of Bertha’s Tax Service, prep...
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Law firm partner pleads guilty to tax evasion
Lawyer News 05/02/2007[##_1L|1307638903.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]A Dallas law firm partner pleaded guilty Tuesday to tax evasion and faces prison time and fines. George Bryan McDonald, a partner with McDonald and Cole LLP, admitted skimming a portion of the...
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Business owner pleads guilty to tax evasion
Lawyer News 05/01/2007[##_1L|1191284230.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]The owner of a landscaping and contracting business in Monmouth County has pleaded guilty to tax evasion, admitting that he evaded more than $300,000 in federal income taxes, U.S. Attorney Chr...
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TurboTax E-Filers Get Extension From IRS
Lawyer News 04/19/2007The Internal Revenue Service today gave TurboTax customers who were unable to file electronically Tuesday an extension until midnight Thursday.Intuit, the company that makes the popular tax software, reported that its electronic-filing back-end syste...
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Overlooked tax benefits can become advantage
Lawyer News 04/06/2007[##_1L|1111802072.jpg|width="128" height="81" alt=""|_##]With a little over a week left before the federal income tax-filing deadline, local tax preparers and the Internal Revenue Service are urging taxpayers to take a moment before they file their r...
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Cell Phones Eligible for Excise Refund
Lawyer News 04/02/2007The Internal Revenue Service reports that a large number of cell-phone users are overlooking the telephone tax refund mistakenly believing that the one-time refund only applies to land-line customers. According to the IRS, most cell-phone users quali...