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Tax law and criminal law is confusing. What are your rights? What penalties are you facing? What do you do next? We’ve answered these questions and others like them in our video FAQ library. Please feel free to watch our videos and then Contact Us when you’re ready to move forward with an evaluation of your case.
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September, 2014 None of us are under any obligation to cooperate with the government and assist the government in the search of our home, our personal property or automobile. In fact, if you let the government come in and search all of your belongings it doesn’t neces … |
August, 2014 The IRS has incredible powers; they can seize your car, they can seize your home. As I like to tell clients, it’s really not just the IRS it’s actually congress has passed legislation that gives the IRS this power. Now, that’s not to say that they exer … |
There are number of options and programs available for taxpayers who are having difficulty or unable to pay their taxes. First, there’s something called an installment payment plan and that enables you to workout an arrangements with the IRS to pay an … |
If you think you’re under investigation for a white collar crime, or I would suggest any crime, the important thing is to understand what is it that the government is looking at; what do they think that you did wrong? In that situation, I would probabl … |
It is sometimes possible to settle your debt with the IRS for less than what you owe. It depends on a variety of factors; mostly it does not depend on how much you owe but how much you have. The IRS wants to know all of your assets, all of your liabili … |
The IRS brings criminal charges in the Southern District of Florida and all over the country. Their attempts to do so are based on a policy of trying to be uniform in the charges that they bring. Many years ago, I was an assistant U.S. attorney in the … |
Many individuals are charged with crimes, many of our clients are charged with crimes; they really did nothing wrong and are completely innocent. Even though the burden of proof is on the government to prove someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, th … |
While nobody likes to be audited, nobody likes to have the IRS looking into their tax returns and their personal affairs, we can try to help things run more smoothly. An audit can be something that’s very simple and straightforward. On the other hand, … |
September, 2015 Most white collar crimes have penalties that are more than one year in prison, which is a felony. Some of these crimes include potentially penalties of five years in prison for tax evasion, wire fraud, and securities fraud could be twenty years in pris … |
August, 2015 Every year on your tax return you’re required to report any bank accounts that you have outside of the United States so if you haven’t been reporting those this could be a serious problem. The IRS has serious penalties that they can impose against you … |
July, 2015 My experience is that most business owners don’t really know what’s in their tax returns there’s nothing wrong with that. So the first thing that you should do is go to your accountant or your CPA, whoever prepared your return, and have them look at th … |
June, 2015 The thing about tax evasion is that the government has to prove that the taxpayers acts were willful. In other words, the government has to prove that a person intentionally and knowingly wanted to violate the tax laws. Another thing they have to prove … |
May, 2015 Sometimes if you’re being investigated by the United States Attorney’s Office in a federal matter or the state attorney’s office in a state matter, you will get a letter that you are under investigation and you’re a target of the investigation. But mor … |
April, 2015 So if you get a notification in the mail that your personal tax return is being audited, you have several options. The first thing you should probably do is send the notice to the accountant who prepared your tax return and ask for their advice. If you … |
March, 2015 Anytime you’ve got a subpoena or a summons. it’s a serious matter and I would recommend that you do speak to a lawyer. Ultimately, it may not be necessary but you’re really not in a position to know in advance. I’ve represented a number of people who w … |
February, 2015 Because of the nature of our practice, I’ve represented a number of accountants over the years who have asked this precise question; it happens frequently. It’s important that the accountant speak to a lawyer about these matters. I’m not saying that al … |
January, 2015 A subpoena is really just a fancy word for a court order that commands a person to appear. In our practice, it needs to be distinguished from something called a summons. A summons is, in many regards, like a subpoena but it’s an administrative order as … |
It is sometimes possible to settle your debt with the IRS for less than what you owe. It depends on a variety of factors; mostly it does not depend on how much you owe but how much you have. The IRS wants to know all of your assets, all of your liabili … |
December, 2014 I think the most important thing to avoid being audited by the IRS is to make sure that your tax returns are prepared properly in the first place. It’s important to express to whoever is preparing your tax return that you don’t want to cut any corners, … |
November, 2014 The problem with trying to cooperate with an investigation against you is that you don’t know what the government’s looking at. Sometimes the government is looking at one area, by cooperating with the government you’ve simply helped them perfect anothe … |
October, 2014 There is absolutely no problem with having a bank account outside of the United States. However, you are required to report it on your tax return and on certain other informational returns every year. If you don’t do that, that is a crime. So unlike ha … |
