Law and legal issues

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services recently provided a cautionary example for internet companies that don't collect taxes.

Andersen Tax has been spreading its network of tax and legal services firms across the world after settling a legal dispute last year with a French firm that had laid claim to the Arthur Andersen name.

Facebook Inc. must allow a U.S. judge to inspect documents it has avoided showing the Internal Revenue Service as part of an investigation into the company’s use of an Irish subsidiary for tax purposes.

From the oven to the money market; 38 phony checks in a day; software firm scheme crashes; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A Supreme Court ruling frees taxpayers from the worry of ‘felonizing’ their return, experts say.

Stopped for Speedy; hitting the Breaks; Interior motive; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The high court, in a 7 to 2 decision, ruled in favor of a business owner who didn't file taxes and destroyed some of his banking records, finding the omnibus obstruction clause in the Tax Code was overly broad.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a Colorado cannabis business that refused to cooperate with an Internal Revenue Service audit and turn over business records.

The wrong partner dynamics can torpedo (or at least slow down) a deal.

A Tax Court case parses the rules behind whether a C corp can deduct mortgage payments.

The biggest-ever payouts went to tipsters who provided information that helped the agency bring a 2016 case against Bank of America.

A lawsuit accuses PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of illegally favoring younger job seekers

Scheming from coffee shops; disbarred and behind bars; AOTC on 3,000 returns; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Preparers and their clients often cannot recognize quality differences among service providers, leading to buying decisions based on who proposes the lowest fee or promises the highest tax benefit.

Bogus W-2s; dependents, complete with numbers; underreporting supplemental money; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Scaling New Heights will continue as planned; the filing is an attempt to restructure debt.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility is changing how it handles probes of practitioners who may have violated Circular 230 rules.

The Solicitor General urged the justices to let state and local governments collect billions of dollars from online retailers.

Status guilty; felony charges dropped against New York CPA; sales fails; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Big Four firm agreed to resolve potential liabilities related to its work for a failed mortgage lender.