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Between 2004 and 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intermittently investigated petitioner Marinello’s tax activities. In 2012, the Government indicted Marinello for violating, among other criminal tax statutes, a provision in 26 U. S. C. §7212(a) known as the Omnibus Clause, which forbids “corruptly or by force or threats of force . . .obstruct[ing] or imped[ing], or endeavor[ing] to […]

The IRS has announced it will begin to shut down the 2014 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP). The program will close on September 28, 2018. Therefore, U.S. taxpayers with undisclosed foreign financial assets have a limited amount of time to use the OVDP before the program ends. Background More than 56,000 taxpayers have used one […]

As part of our tax and estate planning practice in Connecticut and New York we do a lot of planning and estate administration.  Part of the estate documents we and many other planners put together include terminology regarding “Portability”.  In 2010, Congress introduced into the tax code with Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.) § 2010(c)(2) the […]

Over 8,800 Identities Stolen from the U.S. Army, Alabama State Agencies and Georgia Businesses A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for his role in masterminding multiple stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) schemes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and […]

Gregory E. Pflum of Saint Marys, Kansas, plead guilty in 2007 to one count of attempting to evade income taxes by failing to file a tax return.  At the time Mr. Pflum maintained that income tax laws did not apply to him. Despite repeated warnings, he stopped filing tax returns and followed his father’s example […]

Yesterday three senators introduced legislation that would repeal the IRS’s use of private debt collectors. On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. No. 114-94) into law—the first federal law in over a decade to provide long-term funding certainty for surface transportation infrastructure planning and investment.  In addition […]

Green & Sklarz LLC Partner Eric Green represented the owner of a business that had been embezzled by its bookkeeper, Rebecca Block of Windsor, Connecticut.  To stop the IRS from assessing its client’s owner for the unpaid Trust Fund portion of the payroll taxes, Attorney Eric Green brought the case to IRS Criminal Investigation. Today, […]

Last Friday we had nearly 450 practitioners join us at Quinnipiac University Law Center either in-person or via live webcast to catch our three-hour update on the 2017 Tax Act, and what you need to know. Well if you missed it, FEAR NOT!  We have made it available on-demand for free! Click the link here […]

Alaine GriffinContact Reporter NEW HAVEN — In the same courtroom where a judge in 2007 sentenced him to 38 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Bobby Johnson won his freedom Friday surrounded by the family members and lawyers who always believed he was innocent. “I will enter a dismissal […]

Bobby Johnson following his release from prison, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A man who spent nine years in prison for a 2006 killing that his supporters say he was coerced into confessing to as a teenager with a low IQ was set free Friday after a judge vacated his murder conviction at […]