Judge Hands I.R.S. Victory in Tax Shelter
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A civil court has ruled that a popular tax-avoidance scheme known as Son of Boss was abusive and any deductions claimed for it were invalid.
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Pension funds, university endowments and other groups  exempt from paying taxes  get relief from law intended to combat two notorious corporate tax shelters.
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A federal judge has temporarily frozen more than $500 million in assets owned by thousands of doctors and dentists who bought abusive tax shelters run by a San Diego investment company, the Justice Department announced yesterday.
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A US District Court judge has sent the Federal Election Commission back to work on a passel of rules it wrote to put the 2002 campaign-finance law into effect.
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The ruling against Par Ridder of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis is a victory for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which had accused its former publisher of misusing proprietary information.
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A federal judge has disqualified a defense lawyer for a former KPMG partner in the governmentâs high-profile tax shelter case, a surprise twist on the eve of the trial.
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TUCSON, Ariz.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  lifted a block on a controversial Arizona law aimed at  restricting government services for illegal immigrants.
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The Bush administration's faith-based initiatives got a boost Monday from the Supreme Court: a ruling that ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants.
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The second of three scheduled trials to determine the amount of the recovery for the destruction of the World Trade Center&#39;s twin towers ended in a victory for master lease holder Silverstein Properties, and its head Larry Silverstein.
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A federal jury convicted six people Monday in a tax shelter scheme that helped 1,500 people take &#36;120 million in false income tax deductions from 1997 to 2001.
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A Montrose couple were among six people convicted in a Seattle court Monday in connection with one of the largest fraudulent tax-shelter scams ever prosecuted.
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A White House program to aid religious groups in providing social services survives a court test.
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A U.S. judge dismissed criminal charges against 13 of 16 former employees of accounting firm KPMG in a tax-shelter case on Monday, saying that prosecutors inappropriately interfered with their defense.
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The decision is a victory for free speech and Internet-rights advocates who argued that although the law was well-intentioned, its effects were unconstitutional.
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A Seattle federal court jury found six people guilty yesterday of conspiring to cheat the government out of $32 million through the use of an overseas tax shelter that ended up siphoning millions of dollars from investors.
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A North Carolina state judge ruled against Wal-Mart Stores in a tax shelter case involving the companyâs paying itself rent and later citing that amount as a tax deduction.
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A man who contended that he was not required to pay income tax, and whose case led to an indictment against actor Wesley Snipes, has been convicted of tax evasion.