Whistleblower attorneys Stephen M. Kohn and Dean Zerbe are pleased to announce that a joint client – who wishes to remain anonymous – received an IRS whistleblower award of $16.8 million. The whistleblower provided the IRS with information that led to an enforcement action against 86 high-wealth individuals who had engaged in a sophisticated illegal tax evasion scheme. The enforcement action…
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Tax Whistleblowers Get $8.8 Million Dollar Reward as IRS Revisits Earlier Decision and Triples Award Amount
The law firm of Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank, Jadav & Hunziker LLP (“ZMF Law”) announced today that two of its whistleblower clients received an award totaling $8.8 million dollars based on their information leading to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) collecting approximately $35 million dollars in corporate income taxes. Read full press release here >
NOT SO INDEPENDENT CAYLOR – THE NEWEST RULING ON “MICRO-CAPTIVES” FROM THE IRS
On Wednesday, March 10, the Tax Court issued its fourth case concerning “Microcaptive” insurance companies. In Caylor Land & Dev. v. Comm’r, the IRS continues its winning streak against captive arrangements. In the words of Judge Holmes, who authored the opinion as well as that of the seminal Avrahami case, “We will break no new…
ZMF SECURES APPRAISAL VICTORY FOR ELDERLY FAMILY
For residential and commercial property owners alike, the appraisal process can be as nebulous as it is unfamiliar. Many times, policyholders find themselves not only pitted against their own insurance carrier, but also the very contractors and appraisers who they retained to advocate on their behalf. Worse yet, appraisal can become a protracted process due…
I HAVE WATER DAMAGE IN MY HOME OR BUSINESS DUE TO A PIPE BREAK!! SO WHAT DO I DO NOW?!
As this article goes to print, Texas residents and business owners will have suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage due to the recent Arctic outbreak that migrated to the Lone Star State. Homes and business throughout the southwest are facing consequences because water pipes are breaking. The effects of this meteorological phenomenon is…
