The IRS Motto
Provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all. This mission statement describes our role and the public’s expectation about how we should perform that role.
Houston Attorney Tries to Outsmart the IRS and Loses
Jack Stephen Pursely, an attorney from Houston, TX, was convicted of three counts of tax evasion and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States in September. According to evidence shown during the trial, Pursely conspired with a former client to move more than $18 million the client had earned through his company, Southeastern […]
Pediatric Office Manager Finds Out the IRS Isn’t Kidding Around
Terra Ferguson, from New London, NC, was sentenced to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of failing to collect, account, or pay for payroll taxes. Court documents indicate that from 1992 through September 2016, Ferguson, was employed as the office manager at a pediatric office, where she had complete control over […]