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Internal Revenue Service management covered up corrupt audits of major companies in New York and Los Angeles and protected a rogue agent who tried to frame former Senator Howard H. [...]

Woke up this morning and realized you forgot to mail your income tax return last night, missing the April 15 deadline? Despite all those scary reports in the news the [...]

In a bid to raise $125 million quickly from New York City's huge backlog of unpaid property taxes, the Giuliani administration is moving to market the tax bills in the [...]

Three days before the deadline for filing 1994 income taxes, a Federal jury today convicted a couple of evading Federal income taxes for four years. Stuart Tulchinsky, 47, and his [...]

Reports on the sentence imposed on Jerome Schneider, a prominent seller of offshore banks in tax evasion schemes, by a federal judge in California.

Reports the acquittal of Vernice B. Kuglin of tax evasion in August 2003 by a federal jury in Memphis, Tennessee. Amount of taxes and penalties that Kuglin has to pay.

Reports that a federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled on August 8, 2004, that tax protester Irwin Schiff, cannot sell his book "The Federal Mafia, because it gives fraudulent advice and encourages people to evade income taxes. Imprisonment of Schiff for tax crimes; Indictment for helping thousands of people try to evade millions of dollars or taxes.

LEAD: A Federal district judge today placed a conservative fund-raiser, Carl R. Channell, on two years' probation but imposed no other penalties on him for using a tax-exempt foundation to [...]

The article reports that actor Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of felony and conspiracy charges associated with not filing his U.S. tax returns. He was found guilty of misdemeanor charges and must pay the taxes and penalties due to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A discussion about "tax deniers," people who deny the federal government's right to impose income taxes, is presented.

The article reports that the actor Wesley Snipes will go on trial on federal tax evasion charges on January 14, 2008 in Ocala, Florida. Snipes paid no income tax on an estimated $38 million in earnings from 1999-2004. He is an advocate for the U.S. movement known as tax deniers, citizens who claim they are not legally obligated to pay income taxes, a position no court has ever upheld.

The article focuses on a recently release Senate report stating that so many superrich Americans are evading taxes using offshore accounts that law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct. Among the billionaires cited in the report are included New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson IV and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers children's show producer Haim Saban. The are scheduled to testify in front of the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee. Comments regarding the issue from Senator Carl Levin, Democrat from Michigan, are included.

The article reports that David M. Barrett, the prosecutor in the case of former Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros, is finally closing his operation with a scathing report accusing the administration of former U.S. President Bill Clinton of thwarting an inquiry into whether Cisneros evaded paying income taxes. The author reviews how the legal inquiry into the Cisneros case lasted more than a decade. It is suggested that the case came to be a symbol of the flawed effort to prosecute high-level corruption through the use of independent prosecutors. United States.

Reports on how the federal government's campaign against income tax evaders suffered a major setback when a federal jury in Sacramento, California acquitted a former Internal Revenue Service investigator on charges of helping to prepare false tax returns. Review of the case of Joseph R. Banister; Author's view that Banister has become a hero of the anti-tax movement; Comments from Banister regarding his case; Review of Banister's career history.

Reports that United States Senator Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to justify the $50 million value it placed on a gift of four Stradivaris from Herbert R. Axelrod in the 1990s. Axelrod's flight to Cuba in April 2004 following his fraud indictment; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's purchase of rare stringed instruments from Axelrod; Law on taxation related to charitable donations; Axelrod's efforts to obtain tax deductions.

Reports on the allegations that the oil company ChevronTexaco evaded taxes in a complex petroleum pricing scheme according to a research paper. Involvement of a project in Indonesia; Investigations by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Controversy about the legitimacy of the case.

In the much praised career of Eric H. Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general, there is one notable blemish: Mr. Holder's complicated role in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich, a billionaire financier who had fled the country rather than face federal tax evasion charges. Mr. Holder's supporters portray him as having been a relatively uninvolved bystander caught in a Clinton-era controversy, the remarkable granting of a last-minute pardon by President Bill Clinton to a fugitive from justice. But interviews and an examination of Congressional records show that Mr. Holder, who at the time of the pardon was the deputy attorney general, was more deeply involved in the Rich pardon than his supporters acknowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the comments of Jerry Curnutt, former agent of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), on real estate partnerships. Curnutt said that investors in these partnerships evade billions of dollars in federal taxes each year. He also said that nationally, in 2005, nearly $20 billion of profit from real estate tax shelters was unreported.

The article reports that former securities analyst Richard Josephberg has been convicted on 17 charges in an indictment. This included the first criminal conviction ever for wilfully refusing to pay the so-called nanny tax. Josephberg was sentenced to 50 months behind bars and three years on supervised release in a federal district court in White Plains, New York.

The article reports that federal judge Thomas J. McAvoy has ordered a website, seller of tax-evasion schemes, to close its business operations. The judge said that the website incited criminal conduct by offering new ways to people to stop paying taxes. The website was being operated by Robert Schulz of Queensland.

The article reports that Gene F. Haas, owner of the company Haas Automation, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in cheating the U.S. government out of $34.3 million in taxes in California. Haas will be the fourth and last defendant to admit guilt in the case. The plea agreement is subject to approval by a judge of Federal District Court in Los Angeles, California. Haas has agreed to serve two years in prison.

The article focuses on tax cheating related to capital gains income in the U.S. It is stated that capital gains have become the most popular source of income. According to data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, taxpayers with incomes of $50,000 or less earned about $15 billion from long-term capital gains in 2004. It is stated that majority of unreported capital gains are from securities transactions, and a majority of tax cheating is by low-income people.

The article offers information on the federal tax court's decision in a 14-year old evasion case. The case involved one of the leading tax advisors of the U.S. Burton W. Kanter, and two associates Claude M. Ballard, a former general partner at Goldman Sachs and Robert W. Lisle, a Prudential real estate executive. According to the decision given by Harry A. Haines, Judge of the U.S. Tax Court, kickbacks from the Pritzker family of Chicago, which owns Hyatt hotels were accepted by Kanter.

The article reports that motion picture actor Wesley Snipes remains a federal fugitive and no deal has been made to free him from tax fraud and conspiracy charges. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Central Florida reported this news. At present, the actor is in Namibia filming "Gallowwalker," a horror movie. The United States doesn't have an extradition treaty with Namibia.

The article reports that actor Wesley Snipes has been charged with tax fraud and conspiracy charges. Snipes has been charged after a four-year investigation by the Internal Revenue Service of the U.S. He has been found guilty for failing to file returns since 1999. An arrest warrant has been issued against Snipes by a judge.

The article reports on the results of two federal studies that indicate that tax cheating has gone up in the U.S. despite tax cuts initiated by President George W. Bush in 2001.

Reports on the conviction of Larken Rose, a tax protester who dared the U.S. Justice Department to indict him, for willfully failing to file tax returns.

Reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a lower court order that bars Thurston Bell of Hanover, Pennsylvania, from promoting a popular tax fraud known as the 861 position.

Discusses the failure of the United States government, through the Internal Revenue Service, to catch tax cheats, including business owners.

Reports that Walter Anderson, the telephone entrepreneur accused of being the biggest tax cheat in American history, started playing with his name when he was 12 years old. Impact of his ability to acquire aliases on how he evaded taxes on at least $450 million in income; Use of at least seven aliases to hide his income; Use of elaborate schemes to conceal his movements and money; Reference to his obsession with keeping his actions out of sight; Revelation of little other than his hatred of government and his fascination with space travel; Highlights from his life and career.

Reports on the arrest of Walter Anderson, a telecommunications entrepreneur, who has been charged with evading taxes by hiding at least $450 million of income through offshore corporations. Highlights of the 12-count indictment against Anderson; Comments of Mark W. Everson, Internal Revenue Service commissioner; Background on Anderson, chief executive of Orbital Recovery; Allegation that Anderson formed an offshore corporation, Gold and Appeal Transfer, in the British Virgin Islands to hide his profits from deals involving a telecommunications company he started in the 1980s.

Focuses on the case of Al Thompson, who was in trial for willful failure to file tax returns, which illustrates the changes in the tactics of U.S. regarding tax evasion. Expectation of the court for the argument of Thompson during his trial; Complicacy of the defense of Thompson; Development of an efficiency system by the Internal Revenue Service to identify tax cheating.

Discusses how Jerome Schneider helped rich Americans evade taxes by selling them phony offshore banks. Expectation that his clients will be prosecuted for the taxes that they evaded; Details of an interview with Schneider; Claim by Schneider that he never evaded taxes himself; How Schneider set up sham banks outside the United States; Admission that he is a criminal; When the United States Internal Revenue Service began investigating Schneider.

Reports that a federal judge ruled against Long-Term Capital Management, the mammoth hedge fund whose collapse in 1998 roiled world markets, finding that the fund acted in bad faith when it took $106 million in tax deductions. Importance of the harshly worded decision for hedge funds and their investors; Implication that Long-Term Capital was an abusive tax shelter; Suggestion that some of the hedge fund's crucial transactions lacked economic substance and existed simply to avoid paying taxes.

Focuses on Remy Welling, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent who complained to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about a tax case's handling. Background on a secret deal worked out by IRS officials to allow semiconductor maker Micrel and its top executives to escape millions in taxes; How the agreement required the IRS to cooperate with the company; Why Welling has decided to discuss what happened to her in this case; Welling's view that it offers a striking example of corruption in the tax system; Comments of Welling and of IRS officials; Details of the agreement.

Reports that the Justice Department asked a federal judge to shut down the National Audit Defense Network that it says promotes income tax fraud and has bilked the government and 100,000 customers out of at least $500 million. Loss of at least $324 million in taxes by the government; Expansion of tax cheating in the face of a steady erosion in enforcement of the tax laws over the last 15 years; Complaints by customers to the Internal Revenue Service that the business was a scheme to promote fraudulent deductions on tax returns.

Presents survey result on the declining law enforcement initiative of the Internal Revenue Service in the U.S. Escalation of the tax evasion; Impact of the unrealistic budget proposal on the performance of the agency; Need for enhancing the tax system.

The article throws light on a conspiracy case of tax exemption. A federal grand jury in Las Vegas indicated that Irwin Schiff, who has helped thousands of Americans in tax evasion, conspiracy and other charges, could send him to prison for 43 years. Schiff was a psychiatrist, who holds a deluded belief that he alone can properly interpret the tax laws was sure of never been convicted by any jury. Finally, if the judgment goes against Schiff, he could be imposed a fine of $3.25 million. His former girlfriend, Cindy Neun was also charged with conspiracy, failure to file tax returns and theft of government property.

Reports on the guilty plea to the felony tax charge against leading promoter of offshore bank accounts Jerome Schneider in the U.S. Promotion of tax evasion; Reduction of prison sentence.

Reports that jurors in Forth Worth failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Texas businessman, Richard M. Simkanin, who has not withheld taxes from his workers' paychecks since 2000. Background of the case; Supreme Court standard for acquittal of tax evasion; Status of the case.

Reports that a former governor of Hawaii, Benjamin J. Cayetano, who ordered an investigation into accusations of tax fraud by ChevronTexaco claims he was not aware that the law firm hired to investigate had worked for the predecessors of the company. Issue of conflict of interest; Qualifications to Hawaii's attorney general office; Overview of the tax fraud case.