Taxation & Estate Planning

Responding to Tax Protesters:
Do you know someone who believes that they don't have to pay income taxes because income taxes are voluntary, wages are not income, or the income tax is unconstitutional? My collegue...

Atty Censured For Failing To Pay Taxes
Corporate Attorney Censured For Failing to Pay Income Taxes is an interesting March 9, 2009 New York Law Journal article. It is about a big firm atty who failed to file income taxes on a 4...

Down goes Geithner
TaxProf has been all over the Geithner tax-payment story, which has morphed from a Zoe-Baird-esque household-help issue into a much bigger catastrophe. His failure to pay taxes from his IMF income seems more and more troubling as details come out...

Discharging Income Taxes in Bankruptcy: Two of Four
As I previously wrote, there are four general requirements for discharging income taxes in bankruptcy. The first is the three-year rule. The second, which I’ll discuss here, is the 240-day rule...

Estate Taxes
Most people don't realize that we have two systems of taxation. One taxes income as it's earned; the other taxes wealth as it changes hands. During a person's lifetime, we call this transfer tax the gift tax...

Discharging Income Taxes in Bankruptcy: Four of Four
This past week, I wrote about discharging taxes in bankruptcy and about the three-year, 240-day, and two-year rules. This is the fourth and final installment regarding income tax dischargeability concerning unfiled or fraudulent returns and tax evasion...

Income Tax Changes for 2007
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The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
Phantom Income Relief on Debt Cancellation

Tax Discrepancies
Northwest Airlines pays IRS $12.6 million settlement for taxes and interest.

DLP
Ohio State to Receive $42 Million in Corporate Taxes Settlement

Personal Property Taxes
Village of Romeo pays Ford Motor Company a $1.2 million settlement for double charging.

Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund
OPCHX

Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Louisiana, USA
allegedly providing inadequate medical care for low income residents.