Tax Lawyer's Blog

WebCPA reports that singer and would-be Haitian President Wyclef Jean has been hit with IRS tax liens totaling $2.1 million:
The IRS filed three tax liens against Jean for his 2006, 2007 and 2008 taxes, according to The Smoking Gun website. The agency filed the first lien in 2007 for $792,269, last July for $599,167 and in May [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

Well, maybe you can’t.
WebCPA reports that Robert Blake, the actor who played the title character in the 70’s T.V. series Baretta, is facing a $1.1 million tax lien from the state of California:
The state filed a tax lien for $1,110,878 on April 9 with the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds, according to the Detroit News.
Blake has been [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report yesterday stating that the IRS failed to make or inappropriately made tax lien determinations in $1.4 billion worth of delinquent tax cases:
The IRS protects its claims against taxpayers who owe delinquent taxes by filing Federal Tax Liens (liens), which establishes the IRS’ priority among secured creditors for [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

Ezra Klein of Newsweek writes that the IRS should expend it’s new resources¹ on going after tax cheats:
A report released by Citizens for Tax Justice shows that between 1995 and 2005, the IRS’s budget was slashed by a fifth. Between 1995 and 2003, its enforcement division lost 36 percent of its staff. They were barred [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

WebCPA reports that the IRS filed a tax lien for $185,000 against Marvin Gaye III, the adopted son of the late Marvin Gaye, the famed Motown singer:
The agency filed the lien against Gaye on November 4, according to the Detroit News. His business manager, however, said that he has been working out his tax debts with the [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

Let me be the first to nominate National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson to be the next Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
It has been a near Sisyphian struggle, but Ms. Olson has somehow managed to keep the boulder of taxpayer rights at the top of the hill.
WebCPA reports that Ms. Olson has urged the IRS to do the following:

Answer more than [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

WebCPA reports that Joe Francis of “Girls Gone Wild” fame has filed a lawsuit against the IRS for illegal collection activities (emphasis added):
[S]hortly after the judge accepted his plea deal, the IRS filed a lien for $33,819,087.14 for three years of back taxes, from 2001 to 2003 (see IRS Files $34M Lien Against ‘Girls Gone Wild’ [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
From Detroit News:
Pam Anderson – the actress/Playmate/home movie star and ex-wife of Detroit native Kid Rock – owes more than $1.9 million in delinquent taxes, records show.
What’s owed:

The IRS filed a $1,700,173 lien against Anderson on Oct. 19 with the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds.
The state of California filed a [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

David Ellis of CNN.Money reports that the FDIC has published a study that says,
[A]pproximately 7.7% of all U.S. households, or 17 million Americans, were considered “unbanked,” meaning they did not have any sort of a checking or savings account.
The study says that the main reason people do not have bank accounts is because of a [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]

WebCPA reports that our pal Joe Francis - the shaper of young teenage minds and other stuff - is being forced into bankruptcy by a whopping $34 million IRS lien:
[The] CEO of the company that produces the racy “Girls Gone Wild” video series, is in trouble with the IRS again only weeks after a judge sentenced him [...]

Bookmark & Share:

[Read more →]