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Online Sellers Face New IRS Rules

Business Opportunities Weblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

The Wall Street Journal: If you regularly sell items on online auction sites, you may find yourself on the Internal Revenue Service’s radar. Recent legislation aims to help the IRS collect more taxes from online enterprises, many of which either don’t know about their tax obligations or are ignoring them, according to the agency. The provision will [...]

• Ask Not For Whom the IRS Bell Tolls, It Tolls for eBay… - Psychohistory

I.R.S. Offers Big Banks, Others Settlements on Tax Shelters

DealBook (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

More than 45 major U.S. companies, including big banks, are being offered settlements to get rid of abusive tax shelters, the Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday. “Promoters and participants in aggressive tax shelters should know that the I.R.S. will remain vigilant,” I.R.S. commissioner Doug Shulman told reporters on a conference call. The I.R.S. will offer companies [...]

• IRS offers banks and others tax shelter settlement - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• IRS offers deal for companies to end tax shelters - Seattle Times
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IRS offers to settle with firms using leasing tax shelters

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

National business briefs: IRS offers settlements to corporations accused of questionable tax-shelter practices

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that it was prepared to offer settlements to about 45 corporations that had gotten billions of dollars in tax deferrals if they agreed to end questionable tax-shelter practices.

IRS Offers Amnesty on 'LILO' Deals

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

The IRS is offering a type of amnesty to more than 45 companies that engaged in complex leasing transactions that the agency has challenged as abusive tax shelters.

IRS Offers 45 Companies a Deal to Exit Tax Shelters

CFO (Free subscription) | yesterday

In the complex structures, big corporations lease or buy such large assets as foreign railroads or sewer systems and then lease them back to the original owners.

• IRS offers deal for companies to end tax shelters - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• IRS offers deal for companies to end tax shelters - Seattle Times
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Judge Nixes Bail For Man Accused Of Trying To Have IRS Agent Killed

Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

On July 31, federal authorities charged Randy Nowak, 48, of Mulberry, with attempted murder of an IRS officer. Today, Magistrate Judge Thomas B. McCoun III today ordered Nowak held without bail, citing potential danger to the revenue officer and a confidential informant who helped investigators.

IRS offers banks and others tax shelter settlement

Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 45 major U.S. companies, including big banks, are being offered settlements to get rid of abusive tax shelters, the Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday.

Mr. Kosar? The IRS Is Here To See You.

WaitingForNextYear (Free subscription) | yesterday

Though I’m never a fan of TMZ’s work, especially in regard to athletes, I figured that this one was at least pertinent to Cleveland fans: The Internal Revenue Service says former NFL great Bernie Kosar owes $228,806.21 for income earned in 2006. He also is delinquent on his 2007 property tax in Florida. The toll includes [...] ShareThis

IRS Issues Memo on Campaign Activity on the Internet

Melissa Rogers (Free subscription) | yesterday

On July 28, 2008, the IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division issued a new memorandum to all Exemption Organization (EO) Revenue Agents regarding campaign activity on the Internet. The memo supplements the parts of IRS Revenue Ruling 2007-41 that...

IRS offers deal for companies to end tax shelters

OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesay it is prepared to offer settlements to some 45 corporations if they agree to end questionable tax shelter practices….

IRS offers deal for companies to end tax shelters

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Internal Revenue Service said today it is prepared to offer settlements to some 45 corporations if they agree to end questionable tax shelter practices.

Man denied bail for plot to kill IRS agent

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

A central Florida man charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill an IRS agent who was auditing him is being held without bail.

IRS Offers 20% Settlement to LILO & SILO Tax Shelter Investors

TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

New York Times: I.R.S. Offers to Settle Tax-Shelter Dispute, by Lynnley Browning: The IRS on Wednesday offered more than 45 corporations the opportunity to settle disputes over the use of certain tax shelters that have been used to shield billions...

IRS offers deal for companies to end tax shelters

USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesay it is prepared to offer settlements to some 45 corporations if they agree to end questionable ...

Employment Identity Theft and the IRS

aprpeh | 07/15/2008

Ed Dickson at " "/url?id=64269208&url=D5-4380-128C2-" " FraudWar Blog reported on the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) Fiscal Year 2009 Objectives, report to Congress. The IRS has proposed improved processes to identify and manage consumer files where notification of identity theft has been previously made and fraud previously determined. " "/url?id=64269208&url=D5-4380-128C2-" " - Stolen Identities...

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