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• Tax Court Allows Deduction for Sex Change

  February 3, 2010

  The U.S. Tax Court has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts taxpayer whose deduction for her sex change operation was rejected by the Internal Revenue Service.

• Man Pleads Guilty to Filing 250 Tax Returns for Dead People

  January 27, 2010

  A California man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. after he was accused of filing at least 250 tax returns of deceased individuals.

• Liberty Picks Non-Celebrity Pitchman for Online Tax Service

  January 22, 2010

  Liberty Tax Service has taken a cue from the Subway sandwich shop chain and hired a “Jared-like” customer as the official spokesman for its eSmartTax.com online tax prep service.

• Tax Court Denies Medical Deduction for Prostitutes, Porn

  September 15, 2009

  The Tax Court has denied a Brooklyn tax lawyer’s attempt to claim over $100,000 in payments for prostitutes and pornography as medical expense deductions.

• House Cleaner Receives Accidental $122,783 Tax Refund

  August 24, 2009

  A house cleaner in the Denver area received a hefty refund from the IRS by mistake.

• IRS Agent: ‘I’m Going to Kill All of You!’

  July 17, 2009

  IRS agent Albert Bront threatened to kill a group of U.S. Treasury agents when they tried to search his home earlier this week.

• Tax Preparer Charged with Threatening Assistant DA

  June 18, 2009

  A tax preparer has been arrested for stalking and threatening to harm an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan DA’s office.

• Mattress Wallet Comforts Financially Cautious

  June 12, 2009

  A company has introduced a mattress-like wallet aimed at people who want to make sure they put their money in the safest place possible.

• IRS Contractor Accused of Elevator Urination

  May 27, 2009

  A contractor for the IRS has been charged with repeatedly urinating in a freight elevator in the IRS’s office building in Detroit, causing an unpleasant aroma.

• IRS Agent Refuses Pizza Bribe

  May 26, 2009

  A Texas restaurant owner has been sentenced to two years in jail after he was convicted of trying to bribe an IRS agent by offering her free pizza and a job.

• Gambling Tax Commissioner Replaced

  May 6, 2009

  A county tax commissioner in New Jersey has been replaced after he was indicted last week for conspiring to embezzle $278,650 from his Elks Lodge to gamble in Atlantic City.

• Video: Joe the Plumber Takes on the IRS

  April 6, 2009

  Joe the Plumber has made his next mission the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service.

• 30 Years in Jail for Attempted Hit on IRS Agent

  March 6, 2009

  A Florida man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for hiring a hit man to murder an Internal Revenue Service employee who was auditing him and his construction business.

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