Law and legal issues

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.

To prosecutors, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s purchase of Autonomy Corp. was akin to buying a Pinto dressed up as a Cadillac.

As the newest cooperator for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the former Trump campaign aide gives prosecutors a powerful weapon in a tax-related case.

The Special Counsel filed conspiracy and false-statement counts against the former campaign official.

A former top aide to Donald Trump could be cooperating with the Special Counsel’s investigation.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his onetime deputy were indicted for fraud as the U.S. Special Counsel mounted a fresh attack to strengthen his legal pressure against the men.

International schemes sought millions; an asset shuffle; time’s up for temp agency; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court narrowed an anti-retaliation provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, insulating publicly traded companies from some whistleblower lawsuits.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV lost a case against a former business partner related to how it reported financials for 2016, the first major legal setback for the global retailer as it battles an accounting scandal.

Bighorn to the big house; rotten apple; in Dutch; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A Florida CPA was sentenced in federal court in Boston for multiple counts of tax fraud and obstructing the Internal Revenue Code.

Eighteen months, guaranteed; former CPA, current inmate; trust them not; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A training software provider has gone public with a lawsuit after a DHG employee published excerpts from some of its training materials on the firm’s website.