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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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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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Start Now to Make Your 2024 Tax Return Easier to Do

Withum

Last year is a closed book for most transactions that will be reported on your 2023 tax return. However, there are some things you could do now that would simplify your tax return for 2024 and later years and also reduce the fees you pay a professional preparer. Here are some actions to consider.

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Friday Footnotes: How EY Fights Poaching; Lack of Staff Is Closing Doors; Accounting to Biglaw? | 11.25.22

Going Concern

FRC to fine Deloitte £440k over 2018 audit [ Accountancy Today ]. KPMG Australia appoints first-ever head of metaverse future [ Accounting Today ]. The accounting veteran adds that a wider lack of staff is causing some to “close their doors to new business,” thus narrowing clients’ options and raising audit fees.

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Former Illinois State Senator Gets 3 Years Probation for Tax Evasion

CPA Practice

Terry Link, who wore a secret FBI wire in a sting against a colleague in the Illinois Legislature, was sentenced to three years of probation Wednesday on tax evasion charges stemming from the withdrawal of campaign funds for personal use.

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Fourteen People Who Inspired Future Tax Criminals in 2022

Going Concern

The IRS Criminal Investigation unit has released its top cases for 2022 and in it we get reality TV personalities, a rogue tax preparer, some garden variety PPP fraud, and even a former decathlete with his own Wikipedia page. Burnell did not report any of the money he received from victims in 2011 or 2012 on his income tax returns.

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