Tax Cheats

Tax Cheats: Here's When You Can Relax

Wall Street Journal | Laura Saunders | Posted 04.20.2012

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Is a tax sin haunting you? Maybe you paid a baby sitter under the table, or "forgot" to declare income, or deducted personal expenses as business c...

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Guess Who's Getting Targeted By Tax Scammers Again

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.05.2012

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It's tax season -- which means that scammers are once again trying to rip off the elderly. The Internal Revenue Service issued a notice on Monday ...

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Tax Cheats Received Billions In Stimulus Cash, Report Finds

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 07.23.2011

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WASHINGTON — Thousands of companies that cashed in on President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package owed the government millions in unpaid ...

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Policing Tax Evasion Could Save Billions, But Republicans Won't Fund Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Simon McCormack | Posted 06.28.2011

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) admitted on Monday that the federal government is in serious need of extra revenue. But since taking control of th...

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Corporations Are Draining America's Vitality

Carl Gibson | Posted 05.30.2011

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All that's needed to get our economy standing upright again and the wealth circulating throughout the economy is for Fortune 500 headliners to pay their fair share in taxes.

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Tattling For Dollars: The Ranks Of IRS Tax Informants Grows

DailyFinance | JONATHAN BERR | Posted 05.25.2011

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The numbers of people who are informing the IRS about delinquent taxpayers is growing. The agency gets about 40 to 50 tips a month from ex-spouses,...

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Meet California's Biggest Tax Cheats

Posted 05.25.2011

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Found via LA Observed, the California Franchise Tax Board has released its list of the state's biggest delinquent taxpayers. This year, the honor goes...

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IRS Launches Unit Aimed At Catchy Wealthy Tax Cheats

Reuters | Kim Dixon | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Audits are underway at a new Internal Revenue Service unit set up to catch rich tax cheats hiding funds in tax shelters, but ...

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Obama Orders New Crackdown On Federal Contractor Tax Cheats

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered a new crackdown on federal contractors who don't pay their taxes. Obama signed an exec...

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UBS Bank Accounts: More Than 7,500 Americans Come Forward About Secret Foreign Accounts

Anna Schecter and Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Faced with a Thursday midnight deadline to avoid possible prosecution, more than 7,500 Americans have come clean about secret foreign bank accounts, a...

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Tax Amnesty Deadline: IRS Extends Cutoff For Applicants

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Procrastinating tax cheats will get a few extra weeks to apply for an amnesty program that has been flooded with applications from ...

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The IRS Wants To Sift Through Your Mortgage Data

Flife | Martin Vaughn | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service will expand a program designed to catch tax cheats that searches for inconsistencies between mortgage payme...

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UBS-Swiss Bank Tax Cheats: Man Admits Hiding $1 Million Overseas

Posted 05.25.2011

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The names of American UBS AG clients who've hidden money overseas to avoid paying millions taxes has begun to trickle in. But the details of just how ...

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Rich Americans Scrambling O

Posted 05.25.2011

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By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from...

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Famous Tax Cheats (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last year, Americans owed $345 billion more than they did in 2007, amounting to almost 14% of federal revenues, according to the IRS. So, it's not su...

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Governments Around The World Pledge To Ease Bank Secrecy

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said in a statement today that the loosening of foreign governments' bank secrecy laws is "a very welcome development whi...

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World Needs Global Financial and Securities Bodies

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

The world economy nearly failed and a global effort by governments and central banks has pulled the system back from the proverbial brink. That's why only a global solution going forward will save the day.

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Super-Rich Tax Cheats (VIDEO)

American News Project | Harry Hanbury | Posted 05.25.2011

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They hide an estimated $100 billion a year from the IRS, but now the U.S. Senate is turning up the heat on offshore tax havens. The man who ratted out...

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Sen. Levin Calls For UBS To Clean Up Or Shut Down Over Tax Evasion

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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**UPDATE** The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS will close private-banking operations for U.S. clients: A UBS AG executive told a U.S. Senate pa...

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Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Bank Clerk

ABC News | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European coun...

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