If you work out a dispute in court, it can take ages. Our courts are overcrowded, and their case loads are backed up. The use of civil litigation is an expensive and inefficient way to settle a dispute. The smarter move, if you and the...
As any criminal defense attorney will be quick to tell you, there is never a statute of limitations for a murder case. Unlike other type of crime, a murder case can be tried many decades later. A recent example of this is in the recent...
In October of 2020, federal prosecutors charged a man from Houston, Texas with a largest tax fraud case in United States history. According to the charges, Robert T. Brockman has concealed more than $2 billion – that is $2,000,000,000 – in income from the Internal...
Justin Fox wrote in February 2021 for Bloomberg about recent data he obtained concerning the year 2018 in federal taxes. This data refers specifically to the Alternative Minimum Tax, and changes that the Trump administration made to the Alternative Minimum Tax. These tax cuts were...
Your divorce may be expensive. Chances are, though, that it will not be as pricey as these four particular splits. They are among the heftiest divorce settlements in U.S. history. Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphey – $150 million Diamond was quoted as saying “She deserves...
In a recent column for Forbes.com, Christine Fletcher opined about estate taxes and estate planning. The thrust of her article was based on rampant speculation that the Biden-Harris White House might move to implement new tax reform policies. We saw the effects of this speculation...
Josh Mandel, the former treasurer for the State of Ohio, is running in the Republican primary for Rob Portman’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat. A Republican judge, Ronald Forsthoefel, had sealed the records about Mandel’s divorce records. Mandel and his former spouse had filed for divorce in...
Ohio is unusual compared to some states when it comes to sales and use taxes. For some states, everything is handled on a statewide basis, and sales taxes are uniform across the state. Ohio has chosen to grant a bit more autonomy and agency to...
Most of us have seen the footage. Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, places his knee on the neck of a crime suspect named George Floyd. Chauvin applies his weight, and keeps his knee on Floyd’s neck, on the ground, for over eight minutes. We...
A recent CNBC report by Andrew Osterland revealed that state tax departments are spending the 2020 tax season looking more closely at professional athletes than ever before. It is understandable why state tax coffers are lighter than usual. The sales tax usually incurred at restaurants?...
