Tax practice

A former Internal Revenue Service employee has been sentenced to two years in prison for identity theft and filing fraudulent income tax returns.

The Newark Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has stepped up its efforts this year to investigate tax fraud and other financial crimes.

Three Republicans from the House Committee on Oversight and Government have written a letter to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman demanding he explain a recent rule that would extend tax credits to individuals who buy health insurance from an exchange set up by the federal government when their state has failed to set up such an exchange.

CCH has released a special tax briefing providing guidance and analysis of the Internal Revenue Service’s temporary regulations for repairs of tangible property and how they may require companies to change their accounting methods.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that many of its services will be unavailable over the Labor Day weekend, to accommodate an annual power outage and electric upgrades.

The Internal Revenue Service is offering a sneak preview of its revamped Web site, which is slated to go live at the end of the month.

The optional reporting of Announcement 2012-19 should be made permanent on the Form 990, according to the American Institute of CPAs.

David Williams, director of the IRS Return Preparer Office, has issued a Facebook “heads up” to preparers who haven’t yet scheduled an RTRP test.

A former tax return preparer from Macon, Ga., has pleaded guilty to filing a false claim for tax refund, theft of government money and aggravated identity theft.

A federal court in Kansas City, Kan., has permanently barred Ahferom Goitom from preparing federal tax returns.

A former Internal Revenue Service revenue agent and tax preparer has pleaded guilty to charges that he tried to hire a hit man to kill four of his former clients who were scheduled to testify against him in a tax fraud case.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed legislation imposing a new tax on strip clubs that will be used to fund assistance to victims of sexual assault.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan paid effective federal tax rates of 20 percent in 2011 and 15.9 percent in 2010, tax returns released Friday night show.

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On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission leveled charges and an emergency asset freeze on the perpetrators of an alleged $600 million Ponzi scheme that was on the verge of collapse.

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The Obama campaign offered to stop asking for copies of Republic presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns if he would release five years’ worth in total. The Romney camp declined.

PTINdirectory.com has launched a searchable database of more than 700,000 federally-registered tax preparers. Preparers can be found by IRS-sanctioned credentials and industries, as well as by services offered and geographic criteria.

A federal court has barred a Michigan couple, Damian and Holly Jackson of Detroit, from preparing federal tax returns for others, preparing their own federal tax returns using false 1099 forms, and promoting an alleged tax-fraud scheme based on the frivolous “redemption” theory, according to the U.S. Justice Department.