For some lawyers at one Albany, N.Y., area law firm, getting a public pension for a no-show school district job was a standard “perk of partnership,” a state prosecutor said…
Three consecutive one-year prison terms might seem like a hefty price to pay for misdemeanor convictions for failing to file a tax return. But when the defendant is a famous…
Failing to file income tax returns for three years cost actor Wesley Snipes a maximum three-year prison term at his sentencing today in an Ocala, Fla., federal courtroom, according to…
As mortgage foreclosures rise to new record highs, there is good news on the legislative front for new homeowners: Congress is working on bills that could enhance existing tax breaks.
Updated: Four attorneys working for a prominent education law firm in Albany, N.Y., have been disqualified from the state pension system by New York’s comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, because they were…
It’s April 15. Have you filed your tax return yet? Despite the adverse professional consequences that can result, some lawyers will delay long past today’s deadline for doing so, past…
An ever-expanding state probe by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of possible pension irregularities now extends far beyond lawyers in private practice who worked for the state’s 700-plus school…
Upated: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in two tax cases, favoring a company that challenged a tax by Illinois and ruling against a taxpayer who sued for refund of…
His own case is still ongoing, some seven years after his death. But tax attorney Burton Kanter’s wily plan for avoiding excessive payments in a nearly 20-year-old income tax matter…
Same-sex couples have now been permitted to form civil unions in Connecticut for several years. But that doesn’t mean that they can expect to have their tax returns prepared online…
It’s no longer necessary for attorneys who seek a tax degree from one of the nation’s most prestigious law schools to spend much time in a bricks-and-mortar classroom to get…
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