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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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Attorney Flagged for Tax Evasion in New Case

CPA Practice

Tax evasion is the practice of misrepresenting income or deductions or falsifying records or failing to file a return. It’s a common complaint by taxpayers around election time that requiring them to file tax returns or pay taxes is unconstitutional.

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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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Review of Liscio – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Oct. 2024

CPA Practice

Hosts Brian Tankersley, CPA, and Randy Johnston review Liscio , a client experience platform that centralizes communication, document collection, and task management for accounting firms. Randy Johnston 00:10 Welcome to today’s Accounting Technology Lab. So went into the accounting software world. I think most firms are.

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IRS-CI Urges Sports Bettors to Play By the Rules This Football Season

CPA Practice

5, the IRS Criminal Investigation unit reminded taxpayers that illegal sports gambling can result in criminal charges ranging from money laundering to tax evasion. Between fiscal years 2020 and June 2024, IRS-CI initiated 151 investigations into illegal gambling activity totaling more than $178.8

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