Taxes February 6, 2026
IRS Issues Proposed Rules on Clean Fuel Tax Credit
The Treasury Department and the IRS released proposed regulations Feb. 3 on the clean fuel production credit under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
February 24, 2013
Former Wells Fargo banker helped fraud ring cash IRS tax refund checks
A former Wells Fargo Bank employee in Anchorage admitted in federal court Thursday that she helped members of an identity theft and tax fraud ring open illegitimate bank accounts and cash fraudulent checks.
February 24, 2013
The Oscars: Academy Awards “Swag Bags” are taxable income, and the IRS is watching
Each Oscar nominee will receive an "Everybody Wins at the Oscars" gift basket, aka Swag Bag, worth just less than $48,000.
February 24, 2013
Restaurant group owes IRS $2.2 Million
A Lancaster, Pennsylvania restaurant company is facing mounting tax bills, which have grown to more than $2 million. The Keares Restaurant Group now has $2.2 million in federal tax liens for unpaid taxes, penalties and interest on several businesses, some that have been closed for more than 10 years. The recently filed liens include: $932,680...…
February 23, 2013
2013 Mileage Rate for Business Travel Deduction – IRS
The standard mileage rates for business travel expenses for 2013. Also, medical mileage rates, moving driving rates, and charitable driving rates for deduction purposes.
February 22, 2013
Bank tellers sentenced for cashing fraud-based IRS tax refund checks
Three people involved in a fraudulent tax-refund scheme were sentenced Thursday in federal court in Orlando for conspiring to defraud the government.
February 22, 2013
Texas lawyers invested millions in unqualified tax shelters
Three Texas personal injury lawyers will have to pay up after a tax court decided yesterday that they invested hard-earned fees in tax shelters that couldn’t pass the Internal Revenue Service’s smell test.
February 22, 2013
Virginia CPA, company in IRS hot seat for not remitting payroll taxes
Greg Moore and Irvin "Jim" Jones Jr. have been friends for more than 40 years. For most of the past 10 years, they worked together at Jones' business, which performed inventory services for large companies.
February 22, 2013
Intuit reports early tax season results: TurboTax unit growth accelerating since Jan. 30
Company Reiterates Full-year Revenue Guidance
February 22, 2013
IRS Reminds Taxpayers to Report 2010 Roth Conversions on 2012 Returns
The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers who converted amounts to a Roth IRA or designated Roth account in 2010 that in most cases they must report half of the resulting taxable income on their 2012 returns.
February 22, 2013
Pennsylvania parochial school owes IRS $300K
A Catholic elementary school in Erie, Pennsylvania, owes the Internal Revenue Service more than $300,000 for failing to remit federal withholding taxes when the school was facing financial difficulties.
February 22, 2013
Drug felon learns a new felony trade: A $12 million tax refund ID theft scam
A convicted Miami-Dade drug trafficker unemployed for the past decade discovered how to make a quick buck, cashing $12 million in fraudulent tax-refund checks over five months last year, authorities say.
February 22, 2013
Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare
The National Association of Enrolled Agents has issued the following statement on how the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, will affect small businesses: