It’s Monday but look at the bright side: We don’t have snow (as long as you’re not in Garrett County) and we do have the roundup. — Filmmaking lawyer uses power of deduction to defeat the Internal Revenue Service. — A ...

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While healing the sick is noble, it is not charitable if a market rate is charged for the medical services being provided. Therefore, the question arises — what makes a hospital charitable, and, therefore, tax-exempt? Curiously, the answer to this ...

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There are tax breaks for college students, job hunters and victims of natural disasters. If much of it seems familiar, that’s because it is. With all the talk about tax reform, there weren’t many changes to tax law in 2011. ...

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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is reviving a program that lets Americans who are hiding their assets overseas avoid criminal charges by paying their back taxes plus penalties. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman says that similar efforts in 2009 and ...

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The Internal Revenue Service has eliminated the two-year limit on taxpayers seeking relief from a spouse’s understated or underpaid income tax liability. “In recent months, it became clear to me that we need to make significant changes involving innocent spouse ...

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Former lawyer Stanley Needleman was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison for tax evasion and structuring bank deposits to avoid reporting requirements. Needleman, 69, also must serve three years of supervised release following his incarceration, pay ...

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When prominent Baltimore defense attorney Stanley H. Needleman pleaded guilty this month to structuring his bank deposits to evade mandatory tax reporting, he joined a growing list of perpetrators locally and nationally. Investigations and prosecutions for the offense — which ...

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WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is signing agreements to share information with nearly a dozen states and the Internal Revenue Service as it gets more aggressive in its program to crack down on businesses that cheat workers out of their ...

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GREENBELT — The U.S. Attorney’s office says a Lusby man has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $630,000 from the sale of Navy scrap metal. Prosecutors said Monday that 46-year-old Christopher M. Hill pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in ...

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We applaud plans to convert the Maryland Office of Sports Marketing into a nonprofit. A public-private partnership seems to make a lot of sense in this area. The state Department of Business and Economic Development and the Maryland Stadium Authority ...

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