The Tax Lawyer’s Blog

America’s has had its fair share of tax cheats, but some have been worse than others.
Below is a list of five famous tax cheats and a brief description of their tax troubles.  At the end of the post is a little poll. Tell me who you think is the worst.
Al Capone

Good ol’ Al, the mastermind [...]

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Joe Kristan of Tax Updates is allowing his readers to choose the 2008 tax person of the year.
We have neglected to run our traditional Taxpayer of the Year voting for 2008. In the interest of personal laziness, I will let you, the reader, help make the selection from my arbitrary slate of candidates. Vote early, [...]

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Tax Girl, Kelly Phillips Erb, reports today that,
Janine Lindemulder (a/k/a Janine James), a porn star who goes by the clever stage name “Janine”, learned her fate last week stemming from a guilty plea to tax evasion. Janine will spend six months in prison (plus one year of supervised release) after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor [...]

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Kent Hovind, alias Dr. Dino, is God’s employee.

But in spite of that, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction for failing to collect and pay employment withholding taxes, obstructing tax laws, and structuring transactions to avoid financial reporting laws.
His son, Eric Hovind, runs the family business while dad is in the hoosegow. They offer for sale speaking and [...]

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The Minnesota Sun reports that the owner of the King of Diamonds strip club in Inver Grove Heights pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of filing a false income tax return Thursday, Dec. 11.
According to information from the U.S. Department of Justice:
Lawrence Frank Kladek, 65 and a resident of Inver Grove Heights, entered [...]

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