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Peter’s Principles: How to Deal With Demon Clients

March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Kay Bell makes some excellent points about bad tax clients who deliver to their tax preparers shoeboxes full of coffee stained tax receipts just days before the filing deadline:
Failure to provide all necessary information to your tax preparer is a major complaint from those who make their livings doing taxes and tax planning for others.
Being very late in [...]

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Tax Fraud, Embezzlement and Segregation of Duties

December 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the former CFO of Groveland Florida’s Marion Gardens Tree Farm was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for tax evasion and four counts of mail fraud:
Gary E. Williams, 59, drained the family owned farming company of at least $10.5 million over and eight year span with an elaborate scheme that has cost more than [...]

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