Beware of Phony IRS Email Scam

There is a big controversy in the tax preparation world right now concerning anybody who runs a business or has property for rent (which is a lot of people). IRS has changed the rules about how repairs should be deducted. Anybody who owns business property is required to comply with the new rules going forward - which includes folks with rentals or business vehicles, and also corporations with desks and equipment. The point is that these new rules apply to a TON of people and businesses, an [...]

One of our clients picked up the phone recently and was told by a man on the other end of the line that he was with the IRS, that our client owed several thousand dollars in back taxes, and said that if the money wasn’t paid, someone would be sent to arrest him. This has become a familiar story.  It is the fourth time we have heard it in the past couple of years, and the second time in the past few months.  And a tax attorney of our acquaintance told us that three of her cli [...]