Posts Tagged criminal tax lawyer
IRS Extends Willful Blindness To Civil Tax Disputes
Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on April 13, 2013
by Brian Mahany Willful Blindness has long been a tool of federal prosecutors in a wide variety of criminal tax and drug cases. The doctrine holds that one can’t avoid criminal responsibility by simply ignoring the obvious. For example, drug couriers have unsuccessfully attempted argue that they couldn’t be found guilty of transporting drugs since [...]
Monkey See, Monkey Don’t
Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on December 9, 2011
by Brian Mahany Most of the articles we post are designed to help people who themselves the victim of fraud or have difficult tax problems. Sometimes, however, we have to remind ourselves that we can’t save people from themselves. Take the example of Kemp Shiffer, an IRS Special Agent. Several years ago Shiffer was the [...]
Threatening IRS Agents? Not a Wise Move
Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on June 26, 2011
by Brian Mahany [Ed. Note: This post contains one of the lighter moments in the tax field. Most of our posts are geared to current and more pressing tax issues.] No one likes the tax man. No one. When I served as head of Maine’s state revenue service I paid my taxes but didn’t enjoy [...]
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