Starting next year, millions of eligible taxpayers can submit federal and state taxes at no cost OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressing strong support for the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Direct File pilot program. The pilot program will allow eligible taxpayers to file their 2023 federal taxes directly with the IRS for…
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National honor for Jones Walker tax attorney | Business News
Dr. Deiadra Garrett has been selected as a member of the Committee of 100 for Economic Development. Garrett is a pediatric general surgeon at Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She earned her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a doctorate in genetics from LSU Health Sciences Center in…
Firm Expands Business Practice With Addition of Senior Tax Attorney
Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms, recently expanded its business law department with the addition of senior tax attorney Joseph A. Peterson. A member of the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office, Peterson serves as Plunkett Cooney’s Tax Law Practice Group Leader. His practice is primarily focused on the resolution of…
Attorney General Bonta Announces Guilty Plea in Bay Area Restaurant Tax Evasion …
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, along with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA), Employment Development Department (EDD), and the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that David Leung, a former Bay Area restaurant owner, pled guilty to eight felony counts for cheating his employees and defrauding the State of California through tax evasion. Leung owned Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet Inc. in Daly…
Spotlight on International Tax and Crypto Attorney Sahel Assar
Our Spotlight series highlights the careers and lives of tax professionals around the world. This week’s Spotlight is on Sahel Assar, the leader of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney’s blockchain and digital asset practice group. Assar, an international tax lawyer, has represented families and entrepreneurs in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia with US connections. She…
Counties want Attorney General opinion on school equalization levy calculation, …
Beaverhead County wants to know if the state is overtaxing its citizens. Beaverhead County Attorney Jed Fitch penned a letter to Attorney General Austin Knudsen a week ago requesting an opinion on whether the state is accurately calculating mill levies or over taxing citizens by using the the 95 mills used for school equalization and…
Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney ADMITS he declined to prosecute Hunter for tax cri…
A top Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney has confirmed he declined to prosecute Hunter Biden for tax crimes, bizarrely claiming he was ‘resource-strapped’ and didn’t have enough lawyers to handle the case. DailyMail.com reviewed the transcript of a closed-door House Judiciary Committee interview with Martin Estrada, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, which was conducted…
John B. Huffaker, longtime Philadelphia tax attorney, has died at 97
John B. Huffaker, 97, formerly of Bryn Mawr, longtime lawyer, tax expert, international philanthropist, pilot, and veteran, died Monday, Oct. 2, after a brief illness at his home in McLean, Va. Prominent for his expertise in tax regulations and estate planning, and much in demand by individual clients, government agencies, and organizations of all kinds…