Tax Lawyer's Blog

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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’ [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Associated Press reports that Hungarian actress and former beauty queen Zsa Zsa Gabor blames her federal tax lien on Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff:�
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s lawyer blames convicted swindler Bernard Madoff for a hefty tax bill owed by his client.
According to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, the Internal Revenue Service filed a lien [...]

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The IRS will place a lien on your property to secure payment of your tax debt. A Notice of Federal Tax Lien may be legally issued by the IRS only after the following 3 requirements are met:

The IRS makes an assessment against the taxpayer;
The IRS sends the taxpayer a written Notice and Demand for Payment; and
The taxpayer fails to [...]

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Henry K. Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle tells us about another tax and spend Democrat who apparently doesn’t think the tax part applies to him:
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife failed to pay more than $239,000 in taxes over a three-year period and have had a lien slapped on their property by the Internal Revenue [...]

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Paul Caron reports that former Republican campaign advisor and former Reagan aide, Ed Rollins, owes more than $1.3 million in federal and state taxes.
Here’s the breakdown.

IRS tax liens:  $1,126,166
New York tax warrant: $169,459
Oklahoma tax warrant:  $35,114

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