Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman sounded pretty chipper this week about the future of the company. She spoke effusively about how well things were going. And she attempted to skim right over her really, really big news: HP is laying off about 8% of its workforce, or 27,000 people (about half the population of Greenland)….
I can’t wait for Hollywood to see the potential in this KPMG tax shelter mess. I predict movie gold! Nothing is waiting in the wings yet (so far as I know), but the live coverage is just as good. After declaring the KPMG lead tax evasion scandal as the “largest tax fraud ever,” overzealous prosecutors…
…Unlike Jenkens Gilchrist, which folded after being hit with penalties related to tax advice involving tax shelters that the Internal Revenue Service found to be abusive. The IRS announced today that it has reached a settlement with the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, the successor firm of the 2001 merger between Sidley & Austin…