A new banking law known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance act, or FACTA, is set to bring closer scrutiny on people in Massachusetts and elsewhere around the country who have significant assets with financial institutions outside the U.S. The law could serve to...
A man who is charged with 22 counts of tax evasion over a period of six years is the president and treasurer of a landscaping company in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He has held his position with the company since 1997. The state attorney general has accused the man of...
A tax controversy may have arisen after a federal appeals court issued a decision in regard to the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York declared that the law is unconstitutional. Another federal appeals court...
An employee who once worked at the District of Columbia's tax office has pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to defraud the government as well as first-degree theft. These charges stem from tax crimes allegedly committed while the woman was working part-time at...
Professional football fans in Massachusetts and around the New England region may be familiar with the name Michael Bennett. Bennett, who played for several years in the NFL, maybe most notably with the Minnesota Vikings, pleaded guilty to wire fraud earlier this year...
