Office Manager Helps Herself to Employer’s Money
Terra Dawn Ferguson, of New London, NC, pled guilty in Federal Court on one charge of employment tax fraud. Ferguson was employed as the office manager for a pediatric office for approximately 24 years. It was Ferguson’s responsibility to collect, account for and pay to the IRS the business’ employment taxes. From 2011 to 2016, […]
Any Way You Slice It, Deli Owner is in Trouble with the IRS
The owner of a deli in Hamden, CT, Raymond George, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of tax evasion. George, who owned Ray & Mike’s deli, tried to evade taxes in numerous ways between 2012-2013. According to court documents, George failed to deposit all of the […]
The IRS and Computerization
At the end of the Second World War, the IRS was handling sixty million tax returns each year, using a combination of mechanical desk calculators, accounting machines and pencil and paper forms. In 1948 punch card equipment was used. The first trial of a computer system for income tax processing was in 1955, when an IBM 650 was installed in […]