Snipes trial offers IRS perfect script
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OCALA, Fla. Â Even Hollywood couldn't have written a more ideal script for the Internal Revenue Service than actor Wesley Snipes' tax-fraud trial.
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OCALA, Florida  - Actor Wesley Snipes, star of the "Blade" movie series, was found guilty of three misdemeanors by a U.S. court on Friday for failing to file tax returns for three years.
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Actor Wesley Snipes pleaded  not guilty on Friday to charges he illegally claimed millions  of dollars in tax refunds and was allowed to quickly return to  an African movie set, U.S. prosecutors.
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(InfoWorld) - If you get an e-mail telling you that you're under investigation by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, take a breath before calling your lawyer. It's a scam. The IRS warned Thursday of two fraudulent schemes that use the IRS's name in an attempt to get victims to install malicious Trojan Horse software on their computers. In the first scam, the e-mail claims to come from the IRS Criminal Investigation division. It says that the victim is under investigation for filing a false tax return. An attachment to the e-mail, which appears to be the IRS's complaint, actually installs malicious software that gives the criminals access to the victim's PC. The second scam e-mail says a complaint about the victim's "business services" has been brought against them and advises that this can be arbitrated by the IRS. The "complaint" attachment included in this scam is actually a new type of Trojan Horse called Backdoor.Robofo, according to security vendor Symantec. Dispute arbitration is something the IRS doesn't do, according to Michelle Lamishaw, an IRS spokeswoman. "We're in the tax business. We're not in the arbitration business," she said. In fact, any time you get an unexpected e-mail from the IRS, it's almost certainly fake. "The IRS does not send out unsolicited e-mails," Lamishaw said. But because these e-mail messages appear to come from the taxman and relate to hot-button topics, some users may click, security researchers warn. "The use of legalese in the message content may intimidate some users into opening the attachment," wrote Symantec researcher Orla Cox, in a entry to the company's Security Response Weblog, posted Thursday. The IRS became aware of both scams over the past few days as samples of the e-mail messages were submitted by taxpayers to the phishing@irs.gov e-mail address that is used for reporting scams, Lamishaw said.
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As the second employee of InfoSpace, Jean-Remy Facq saw the value of his stock inflate and then collapse. Now he's suing in federal court in Seattle for a &#36;4.5 million refund of 1999 federal income tax. He's just one of 200 tech workers who have hired Seattle tax lawyer/CPA Brian G. Isaacson in the hope his novel theories will help them slash old (and sometimes unpaid) tax bills from their exercise of stock options for shares that later tanked.
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A security researcher demonstrates a way to use cross site scripting to remotely spam an internal network printer.
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By Avrum D. Lank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 17--If you hear from the Internal Revenue Service, it is prudent to respond -- unless, that is, the first contact is by e-mail.
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BMcWilliams writes &quot;Russell McGuire, one of the government lawyers who prosecuted spammer Jeremy Jaynes, has published an article justifying the tough sentence recommended by a Virginia jury.
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Wesley Snipes may have to waive a claim that he previously received ineffective counsel, a judge said Tuesday after jury selection concluded in the actor's tax trial.
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Attention all those making more than $100,000: The Internal Revenue Service is watching you more closely. The agency has been ramping up its examinations of high-income filers, which it defines
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An accountant testifying Friday in the trial of fired HealthSouth chief Richard Scrushy gave jurors the recipe for a huge fraud: Take legitimate numbers from clinics and hospitals, add bogus amounts at headquarters, and blend it all together.
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Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.
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Corrects first and fifth paragraphs to show court documents allege Snipes did not file income tax returns, rather than that no taxes were paid.
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Taxpayers who file their returns electronically may begin sending those files on Friday, the Internal Revenue Service said.
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A federal judgeâs sharply worded ruling blaming prosecutors was the latest twist in what the government has billed as its showpiece tax shelter case.
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The SEC's new tool helps investors get the skinny on compensation.
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The I.R.S. and private tax preparers have agreed that the free tax-filing program will be offered for 2006 tax returns without solicitations for refund loans.