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Yacht Broker Sentenced to 2 Months for Tax Evasion

by taxnick on November 8, 2009

A Florida yacht broker who admitted filing a false federal tax return and concealing millions of dollars in a secret account at the Swiss bank UBS was sentenced Friday to two months in prison.
Judge James I. Cohn of Federal District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., gave the broker, Robert Moran, credit for immediately confessing his [...]

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Informant in UBS Tax Evasion Case Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison

by taxnick on August 21, 2009

Excerpt from: Informant in UBS Tax Evasion Case Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison
If not for banker Bradley Birkenfeld, “a massive tax fraud scheme” by Switzerland’s UBS bank to hide the assets of wealthy Americans from U.S. tax collectors would never have been uncovered, prosecutors told a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., federal judge.
Birkenfeld’s attorney said his [...]

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In God He Trusts, Still Indicted on Tax Evasion Charges

by taxnick on April 23, 2009

Anthony L. Jinwright, a native of Wilmington, NC (just outside my hometown) was indicted this week on charges of tax evasion for the years 2001-2005. A federal grand jury in Charlotte, NC indicted Jinwright on 14 counts, including tax evasion, filing false tax returns, mail fraud and making false statements to federal agents. He allegedly [...]

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Tax Avoidence and Tax Evasion

by taxnick on August 16, 2008

Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one’s own advantage, in order to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. By contrast tax evasion is the general term for efforts to not pay taxes by illegal means. The term tax mitigation is a [...]

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