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tax evasion

If You Pay Them, They Will Come

2 October 2009

Here’s a crazy thought: if you give people a financial incentive, you can make them do almost anything (trust me, I watch a lot of reality TV).
For the IRS, the financial incentive comes in the form of increased rewards for turning in tax cheats. A new law, which was established by the Tax [...]

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Richard Hatch Wants to Go Home

30 September 2009

Richard Hatch is not having a good year. After qualifying for early release from federal prison, where he was serving time on tax evasion charges, he was allowed to spend the remainder of his sentence at his sister’s house as house arrest. Hatch, not necessarily being the most conventional guy, apparently had a [...]

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“Girls Gone Wild” Founder Takes Plea

23 September 2009

“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis has agreed to a plea arrangement that will significantly reduce his outstanding tax liability and keep him out of jail (for a bit – I’m making no promises about what he’ll do next). Francis has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns and [...]

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ACORN Officials Offer Tax Advice (and a Word or Two About Being a Pimp)

14 September 2009

Late last week, news broke that officials with the group ACORN were secretly videotaped allegedly offering advice to folks posing as a pimp and prostitute. While accusations have flown about what was or was not said/meant/intended/edited, it’s clear that at least one of the officials was offering improper tax advice.
Here’s the set up for [...]

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USCIS, meet IRS. IRS, meet USCIS.

24 August 2009

In 2008, United States Attorney Laurie Magid announced that indictments had been filed against three defendants: Habeeb Malik, Ira Weiner, and Thongchai Vorasingha. The three were charged with, among other things, conspiracy to make false statements in applications to become United States citizens.
The three, Malik, Weiner and Varasingha, went before a federal [...]

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Richard Hatch Goes Back to Jail

20 August 2009

I feel like I should send Richard Hatch a fruit basket or something for making it so easy to find things to blog about…
As you know, Richard Hatch has been serving time for tax evasion for, among other things, not paying the tax on his “Survivor” winnings. He requested and was granted house arrest [...]

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taxgirl is a hypocrite

14 August 2009

Earlier today, I wrote this post wherein I more or less insinuated that I believed that Daniel Andersen might be inclined to tout his tax evasion nonsense again, despite being caught and serving time in a California federal prison.
A few hours earlier, I had been tweeting away about the signing of Michael Vick with my [...]

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Break the Law Once, Shame on You… Break the Law Twice…

14 August 2009

Here’s my advice on a Friday morning: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

No pill will really help you lose 100 pounds without diet or exercise. No executor of a Nigerian estate is really going to send you millions of dollars just for answering an email. No seminar series [...]

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UBS Settles with IRS

12 August 2009

Um, that’s all we know. Really. I’ve been sent a trillion links on this today and despite pages and pages of content, nobody has any real details.
The IRS has requested the names of more than 50,000 US taxpayers with accounts at UBS. The Swiss bank handed over about 300 names so far. [...]

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Judge Says No to Hatch

13 July 2009

It looks like Richard Hatch will have to hitch his star to some other quick scheme to win a million dollars: he won’t be heading to Samoa. US District Judge William Smith has determined that Hatch will not be able to leave home confinement early to travel to Samoa for a special anniversary [...]

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