personal medical records

filed their tax return with medical expense and home deductions, however they failed to supply any evidence of the costs associated with these deductions. Furthermore, their return was filed late. Without providing sufficient evidence, your claims are in effect meaningless. The combined effects of these tax blunders result in late filing penalties and unacceptable deductions. CCH (http://intelliconnect.cch.com) reports: The IRS’s disallowance of a couple’s claimed deductions for medical expenses and home mortgage interest was sustained, and the failure to file penalty was imposed, based on the evidence the couple provided. Since the couple failed

bankruptcy is different from personal bankruptcy. Many self-employed people have incorporated as a business. Incorporation provides you with personal protection from tax debt. Depending on the laws in your state, you can simply declare bankruptcy and dissolve your corporation with no impact on your personal credit history. Ideally under this scenario your corporation’s tax debt vanishes in a poof of smoke with no personal liability but in reality you’ll need to consult with a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist to work out the details in your case. Bankruptcy is sometimes the best option, but it will haunt your credit report for the

couple’s nondeductible personal living expenses and for their personal residence expenses. To bolster the chances that they would succeed in achieving their tax-avoidance objective, they created a fictitious paper trail that included a purported management consultant agreement, a purported employment agreement, a purported medical and dental reimbursement plan, purported real estate installment documents, a purported educational assistance plan document and a purported automobile installment sale agreement. The taxpayers were liable for the accuracy-related penalty for the years in issue because they substantially understated their tax by claiming

are asking for all corporate records, bank statements, copies of leases, etc etc. My tax representative informed me that as my offer is related to personal taxes, and not my business, that this request is both invalid and irrelevant and in fact I don’t have to provide this. I’d be curious to know what you think… Answer: The IRS, during its investigation of the taxpayer’s Offer in Compromise, can and will ask the taxpayer to disclose any and all assets and income. A corporation that is owned by the taxpayer is a personal asset and is included in determining Reasonable Collection Potential and how much of an asset it is.  This is

contractor’s medical expense deduction is limited to 7.5% of the self-employed independent contractor’s adjusted gross income. If you haven’t reached that cap yet, go have those dental procedures or that bit of elective surgery (we’re not just talking about that nose, the swimsuit season will be here again before you know it). As long as you’re under that 7.5% limit, you can get income tax relief from your standard variety medical expense deductions. A little known year-end income tax relief tip – you don’t even have to pay for the medical procedures before January 1, 2010. Just put the medical charges on

evasion. According to court records, Renner diverted substantial funds from his business, Cash Cards International, between 2002 and 2005 to pay his personal living expenses as well as to make personal investments in coins, oil wells, art, stamps and vintage musical instruments. Renner also used CCI funds to promote his musical band, Stevie Renner and the Renegades. From 2001 to 2006, Renner owned CCI, an Internet-based stored-value card and money-transmission business, with locations in Minnesota, South Dakota and Hawaii. Although he was legally obligated to file federal income tax returns and pay all federal taxes owed, he failed to file his income

on income he earned from his medical practice. Around 1995, he joined an organization in Denver called Tower Executive Resources. Tower assisted its members in evading federal income taxes, in part by providing a false invoicing scheme to offset income the members’ earned. Lewis’ medical practice paid funds to Tower in exchange for bogus Tower invoices to substantiate huge false business expenses Lewis deducted on the medical practice’s returns. Tower then deposited the bulk of those funds into an offshore bank account, which Lewis controlled. Lewis faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Lewis’ son, Roy Lewis, a dentist

and because they are public records they show up on your credit report. IRS tax liens can tie up your personal property and real estate. Once an IRS tax lien is filed to resolve IRS back taxes, you cannot sell or transfer the property. Often taxpayers find themselves in a Catch-22 under IRS tax liens where they have property that they would like to borrow against, but because of the IRS tax lien, they cannot get a loan. You’ll need a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist to get IRS tax relief and walk you through this minefield safely. The IRS will never tell you what all of your options are for IRS tax help and how to exercise

use corporations to conceal personal income has pleaded guilty to using his corporations to hide income from federal tax authorities. Dana Ray Reynolds pleaded guilty to two counts of subscribing to false tax returns for the years 2002 and 2003 and admitted that he failed to report more than $300,000 in income to the IRS in each of the years. Reynolds, who promoted his tax-avoidance strategy through companies such as Repackaging America and Incorporating You used these companies to pay personal and family expenses. Reynolds also used the corporations to conceal assets, such as automobiles, recreational vehicles and at least one vacation home. Reynolds

used by the couple for their personal purposes, even though he was aware that the owner received officer’s compensation from the firm, that the firm’s business funds were used to pay the couple’s personal expenditures and that funds withdrawn by the owner for his personal expenses constituted shareholder distributions that were taxable to the couple. Despite such knowledge, he willfully failed to include the amounts as income on the couple’s individual income tax returns. His contention that he believed the owner to have acquired a substantial basis in the corporation was rejected. He knew, or should have known, that the owner