Income Tax

Mr. Justice was a former sheriff's deputy.

As of Monday, Maine has adopted a new standard for who can be considered an independent contractor for Workers’ Compensation, unemployment insurance and other purposes. Until this week, the Maine Department of Labor, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board and Maine Revenue Services each had different standards for who can be considered an independent contractor. This […]

Potsdam, NY, resident Timothy M. Schmidt plead guilty to signing and filing a false federal income tax return.

Online giving is leading the way for charitable donations, according to the latest findings by the Blackbaud Index.

After failing to reach a fiscal agreement and "stepping over the cliff," lawmakers figuratively spun their feet in the air, then turned back and found solid ground by reaching agreement that will prevent the otherwise automatic tax increases that would have hit all Americans. Those taxes would have resulted from the automatic expiration of the "Bush Tax Cuts."

Man is accused of various violations at his tax practice, including preparing false tax-return forms with fabricated businesses and income, selling deceptive loan products, preparing false W-2 forms and filing tax returns without customer consent or authorization.

A Las Vegas real estate agent who took part in a mortgage fraud scheme that netted more than $10 million in fraudulent home loans was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge to serve more than five years in prison.

A 49-year-old caregiver is facing theft charges for allegedly defrauding her 90-year-old client of more than $150,000.