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UBS Client Charged – First to Plead Guilty

UBS CLIENT PLEADS GUILTY TO FILING FALSE TAX RETURN HID ASSETS WORTH $3 MILLION IN SECRET SWISS BANK ACCOUNT Ft. Lauderdale Yacht Broker Second UBS Client Charged, First to Plead Guilty WASHINGTON – Robert Moran, of Lighthouse Point, Fla., pleaded guilty on criminal information charging him with filing a false…

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Tax Preparer Fraud – Beware!

U.S. JUDGE BARS TWO CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS FROM PREPARING FEDERAL TAX RETURNS FOR OTHERS Father and Daughter Prepared Tax Returns That Falsified and Inflated Deductions for Customers WASHINGTON – A federal district court in Connecticut has permanently barred Wethersfield residents Deowraj Buddhu and his daughter, Sunita Buddhu, from preparing federal tax…

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Chances of being audited?

What are your chances for being audited? IRS’s 2008 data book provides some clues IR 2009-22 Mike Habib, EA Tax Relief & Tax Problem Resolution IRS has issued its annual data book, which provides statistical data on its fiscal year (FY) 2008 activities. As this article explains, the data book…

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Audit mistakes by the IRS

TIGTA assesses how well IRS Examination function scrutinizes all open tax periods during audits [Audit Report No. 2009-30-034]: IRS Examination function employees do not always appropriately inspect and examine prior and/or subsequent year tax returns when warranted, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in a new audit.…

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S Corporation Tax

Capital contributions did not restore or increase shareholders’ tax bases in loans to S corporations Nathel, (2008) 131 TC No. 17 Mike Habib, EA The Tax Court has held that taxpayers’ capital contributions to S corporations did not constitute income to the S corporations and that the contributions did not…

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Trust Fund Recovery Penalty

Once is enough as far as collection of the trust fund recovery penalty is concerned Chief Counsel Advice 200838027 The IRS has issued a new Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) on the trust fund recovery penalty. The IRS notes that the CCA may not be used or cited as precedent. IRC…

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IRS Harassment

TIGTA review finds small number of cases where IRS employees harassed taxpayers while attempting to collect taxes [Audit Report No. 2008-10-162]: In 2007, there were five cases involving Fair Tax Collection Practices (FTCP) violations for which an IRS employee received administrative disciplinary action, according to a recent audit by the…

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1031 Exchange New Ruling

IRS OKs use of one property to engineer a reverse and forward like-kind swap Chief Counsel Advice 200836024 In Chief Counsel Advice (CCA), IRS has given its blessing to the use of one property to engineer both a completed reverse like kind exchange and an attempted forward like kind exchange.…

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