by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 24, 2022 | State Tax
August 24, 2022 Gov. Doug Burgum, State Tax Commissioner Brian Kroshus, House Tax Committee chairman Rep. Craig Headland and fellow legislators today announced a landmark tax relief plan that would replace the state’s individual income tax rates with a single, lower...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 24, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 24, 2022 A Florida woman was sentenced to one year and one day in prison today for helping to execute a nationwide tax fraud scheme and attempting to prevent the IRS from recovering a fraudulent refund she received after filing a false tax return. According to...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 24, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 24, 2022 Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, New York Field Office (“IRS-CI”), and Jonathan Mellone,...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 24, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 24, 2022 David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a Wilmington woman pled guilty in federal court on August 12, 2022, to three counts of tax evasion. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews accepted the plea. According to...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 24, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 24, 2022 A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment today charging a Venezuelan national for laundering the proceeds of substantially inflated procurement contracts obtained by making bribe payments to senior officials at Petropiar, a joint venture...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 22, 2022 | State Tax
August 22, 2022 South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) agents today arrested a Richland County woman and charged her with seven counts of tax evasion. Zina F. Hampton, 59, of Irmo, failed to timely report Individual Income Tax returns for tax years 2015-2021,...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 19, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 19, 2022 An Illinois man was sentenced to 29 months in prison today for using stolen identities to file false tax returns. According to court documents and statements made in court, Wilmer Alexander Garcia Meza, of Waukegan, used others’ personal identifying...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 19, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 19, 2022 A New York woman was arrested today, following an indictment returned by the grand jury earlier this week charging her with filing false tax returns, obstructing the IRS, and willful failure to file tax returns. According to the indictment, Ehrenfriede...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 19, 2022 | State Tax
August 19, 2022 The Special Investigations Section of the Tennessee Department of Revenue conducted the investigation that led to Carlos Flores Ramirez, owner of Carmen’s Taqueria, pleading guilty Thursday. Judge Barry Tidwell accepted Ramirez’ guilty plea to five...
by Michael Hogberg, EA | Aug 19, 2022 | Enforcement Updates
August 19, 2022 Elliot Adler, an attorney and founding partner of a boutique San Diego law firm, was sentenced in federal court today to one year and one day in custody for conspiring with former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein to commit tax fraud. He was also...