Taxes

If you live in California or certain other disaster areas, watch your mail. The IRS is sending a special follow-up mailing to taxpayers in several states affected by disasters to let them know that they have additional time to pay their taxes. The IRS is taking this special step to help reassure taxpayers affected by

The death of New York’s Richard Ravitch, a legendary civic and economic expert and problem solver, prompted the New York Times’ Ginia Bellafante to recall the city’s brush with bankruptcy in the 1970s. Noting Ravitch’s role in bringing unions into the city’s financial rescue, Bellafante wonders “could such an alliance happen today?” Sadly, probably not.

It is important for all taxpayers to be at least aware of the power of the IRS, in an effort to incentivize compliance. This is due to the IRS possessing many arrows in its quiver to enforce US taxpayers’ payment of a deficiency. The IRS possesses an assessment statute of limitations which is generally three

A Nigerian national who targeted elderly U.S. victims has been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for his role in the scheme. Emmanuel Samuel, 39, was charged as part of a group of fraudsters that sent personalized letters to elderly victims in the U.S. Earlier this year, Samuel, along with Iheanyichukwu Jonathan Abraham and

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) governs some of the most complex laws in the world. Beyond the complexity, the pace of change in the tax code is hard to keep up with year after year. This month, the latest round of proposed tax changes have implications for individuals and business owners. House Republicans released drafts