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Ohtani interpreter to plead guilty to bank fraud

Accounting Today

An interpreter for the Los Angeles Dodgers star has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges including filing a false tax return after secretly transferring about $17 million from the player's account to pay off gambling debt.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

Going Concern

It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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Defending IRS Cash-Based Audits – Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Computing Income

Withum

As discussed in our previous article, The Case for Using a Forensic Accountant , confronting the prospects of a cash-based audit is fraught with potential traps and exposure to civil and criminal penalties, including incarceration. This makes the forensic accountant part of the defense team. Cash has a destination.

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Tax Savings for Accountants with Gambling Clients

CTP

American gaming has boomed since sports betting and online gambling were legalized. Complex tax laws for filing and deducting gambling winnings and losses provide new hurdles for taxpayers. Without knowing that information, you can’t serve your client the legal help required to avoid paying IRS tax debts.

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Everything You Need for an SBA Loan Application

inDinero Accounting

Fortunately, with the help of indinero’s accounting services for small businesses , it doesn’t have to be so difficult. Those include: Gambling Real estate Lending institutions “Adult” businesses Non-profits What Documents Do You Need for an SBA Loan? Be prepared to provide your personal tax returns for the past two tax years.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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Top 10 Outrageous Things You Are Taxed On | You Won’t Believe This

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But in 1931, Capone was found guilty of 22 counts of federal income tax evasion and was convicted to 11 years in federal prison, in addition to $215,000 plus interest due on back taxes. You see, despite publicly displaying his wealth, Capone never filed a Federal tax return. If not, you may owe taxes on the benefits.

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