Avoid Tax Scams to Make Your Life Less Taxing By Sandy Botkin, Esq., CPA

You just attended a seminar in a nice room with plenty of expensive audio-visual equipment. Many of the seats are filled with folks who are well-dressed and quite courteous. Out comes a speaker who is well-dressed, polished and seems to be very competent, who oozes with "success." He informs the group that they can eliminate paying taxes based on a number of legal arguments. He cites numerous cases that have supposedly supported his arguments. Before you blow your hard-earned cash on his training materials and documents, take a deep breath and read this article.

Introduction: This article will cover the following:

• Phishing scams
• Economic Stimulus scams
• Frivolous tax arguments
• Fuel Credit Scams
• Hiding income offshore
• Abusive retirement scams
• Claiming zero wages
• Filing false claims for refunds
• Return preparer tax fraud
• Disguised corporate ownership
• Misuse of trusts
• Abuse of charitable contributions and organizations
• Slavery tax credits

There are a number of tax scams, not to mention other types of fraud that are being perpetrated upon the American public. It has become such as widespread phenomenon that many of the enforcement agencies are overwhelmed by these frequent occurrences. My purpose is to protect you from being another victim of the newest types of thefts...

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