Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: tax evasion

tax evasion stories: 49 news summaries

41 - 49 of 49 Stories | << Prev 1 2 3

Switch to grid view »

Homes Raided Nationwide in German Tax Fraud Probe

$5B tax dodge crackdown

Feb 19, 08 8:23 AM CST
(Newser) - The fallout from Germany's enormous tax evasion scandal continued yesterday as police began a nationwide raid of the homes and offices of over a hundred people. More than 1,000 rich Germans are suspected of cheating the German treasury out of $5 billion by transferring huge sums to banks and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
taxes • Germany • tax evasion • tax fraud • Liechtenstein • DHL • Deutsche Post • tax dodge • police raids

IRS Takes on Action Star Snipes in Court

Tax fraud conviction could net actor up to 16 years in slammer

Jan 13, 08 5:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Action movie star Wesley Snipes tomorrow faces his toughest opponent yet: the IRS in a Florida court. Snipes could face up to 16 years in prison if he's convicted of failing to report the $37.9 million he earned between 1999 and 2004, and filing for $11.3 million in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
celebrity trials • tax evasion • Wesley Snipes

Rudy's Top Cop to Be Indicted

Giuliani pal and former New York police commissioner faces corruption charges

Nov 8, 07 6:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Federal prosecutors expect to have an indictment by the end of the week against  Giuliani pal Bernard Kerik for accepting illegal gifts when he was New York City corrections chief and police commissioner. The charges include tax evasion, tax fraud and public corruption, the Washington Post reports. The charges are... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rudy Giuliani • Bernard Kerik • corruption • tax evasion • tax fraud • federal indictment

OJ, Warwick on IRS Naughty List

California tries to shame tax delinquents into paying up by posting names

Oct 18, 07 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The California Franchise Tax Board has published a list of 224 of the worst tax dodgers in hopes that public humiliation will succeed where strongly worded warning letters have failed in collecting big tax debts. The list includes OJ Simpson, with a debt of $1.4 million, and singer Dionne... More »

MORE ABOUT:
list • OJ Simpson • tax evasion • Dionne Warwick • Sinbad

Ciprianis Fined for Tax Evasion but Bellinis Safe

Restaurateurs to pay $10M, but save crucial liquor licenses

Oct 11, 07 2:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The owners of Cipriani, the chain of upscale Italian restaurants in New York and Venice, will pay a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion, but they won't go to jail and, at least for now, they'll keep the liquor licenses for their New York outlets. Paterfamilias Arrigo... More »

MORE ABOUT:
New York City • restaurant • tax evasion • Cipriani • Arrigo Cipriani • Giuseppe Cipriani

Feds Nab Tax Evaders With
No Bloodshed

New Hampshire couple gets 5+ years in prison after standoff

Oct 5, 07 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - US Marshalls arrested an anti-tax couple yesterday after an 8-month standoff in New Hampshire, the Concord Monitor reports. Holed up in a solar-powered, concrete home, Ed and Elaine Brown vowed to leave "either as a free man and as a free woman or in body bags." The Browns... More »

MORE ABOUT:
New Hampshire • tax evasion • us marshalls • Ed Brown • Elaine Brown

House Targets Hedge-Fund Tax Deferments

New bill would cut tax deferrals on overseas income for managers

Sep 7, 07 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel said yesterday he will draft a bill to close a loophole that allows private-equity and hedge-fund managers to defer taxes on income earned by funds abroad. Emanuel proposes to limit such tax deferrals to $19,500—the amount anyone can put into a retirement account tax-free.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
private equity • taxes • income tax • tax evasion • hedge fund • Rahm Emanuel

Hotelier Helmsley Dead at 87

'Queen of Mean' learns certainty of death, if not taxes

Aug 20, 07 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Leona Helsmley, the notoriously tyrannical real-estate baroness dubbed New York’s “Queen of Mean,” died of heart failure today at 87. The Brooklyn native took the reins of her husband Harry's real-estate empire in the 70s, and soon her name was synonymous with both luxe hotels and the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
real estate • New York • obituary • tax evasion • Leona Helmsley • Empire State Building • Park Lane Hotel • Helmsley Palace Hotel • New York Helmsley Hotel • Howard Rubenstein

Former Giuliani Partner Faces Felony Charges

Kerik trial could embarrass the GOP frontrunner

Mar 31, 07 4:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bernie Kerik is about to embarrass his former pal and partner Rudy Giuliani again. Federal prosecutors say they will charge Kerik with with several felonies in connection with the same problems that sank his nomination for secretary of Homeland Security in 2004. More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rudy Giuliani • Republican • Bernard Kerik • New York City • taxes • New York • tax evasion • Election 2008

41 - 49 of 49 Stories | << Prev 1 2 3


from our news partners

Associated PressAssociated Press