Civil Tax Penalties: Don’t Party Like It’s 1999 Just Yet
Immediately after the lead juror announces a “not guilty” verdict in a criminal tax lawsuit, nearly everyone at the counsel table reacts like this. However, just like O.J. Simpson’s legal problems were far from over that day, a criminal tax trial is only round one. Before the ink is dry on the jury form, the […]
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After the California Angels dropped a tough 7-6 decision to the Kansas City Royals (normally reliable reliever Rudy May had a rare bad game, giving up two runs in the bottom of the eleventh inning), baseball great Frank Robinson sagely remarked that “Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” […]
Liability For Trust Fund Taxes
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‘Close’ Only Counts In…Tax Accuracy Penalty Cases?!
After the California Angels dropped a tough 7-6 decision to the Kansas City Royals (normally reliable reliever Rudy May had a rare bad game, giving up two runs in the bottom of the eleventh inning), baseball great Frank Robinson sagely remarked that “Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” […]
How the IRS Reconstructs Income In Tax Fraud Cases
In one of the climactic scenes from 1954’s On The Waterfront, Crime Commission prosecutors had to make their corruption case against union boss Johnny Friendly (a/k/a Michael Skelly) by convincing a reticent yet pure-hearted Terry Malloy to come forward and tell what he knew about corruption in the International Longshoremen’s Association, beginning with the murder […]
Liability for Trust Fund Taxes
As a rule, workers look forward to payday, even if their meager restitution isn’t as much as they would like it to be. Visions of sugarplums dance in their heads, or at least visions of one less bill emblazoned with the dreaded “Past Due, Please Remit” stamp. As a rule, employers dread payday. Even if […]
Paying US Taxes As An Expat: The New Indentured Servitude?
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Paying U.S. Taxes As An Expat: The New Indentured Servitude?
“The ship Unity, William Glover, Master, Will sail in a Week. Has very good Accommodations for Passengers. Healthy young MEN and WOMEN, as indentured Servants will meet with good Encouragement, and be well treated on board this Vessel. Apply as above.” Thousands of advertisements like this one appeared in English newspapers prior to the American […]
Do I Need To Report Bitcoin On My FBAR?
Many lawyers are borderline technophobes. In 2014, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the Supreme Court still used vacuum tubes to distribute messages long after these systems became available in Washington-area yard sales. “Judges and court executives are understandably circumspect in introducing change to a court system that works well until they are satisfied that they […]