CPA Faces Prison For Letting Client Deduct Personal Expenses
According to documents filed with the court, Couchot admitted that for tax years 2006 through 2010, he assisted in the preparation of false individual income tax returns for a group of individuals associated with the Cadillac Ranch restaurants, which caused a tax loss of over $191,000 to the IRS. On May 15, 2014, Jon Field from Dublin, Ohio, along with Eric Schilder, of Marion, Ohio, and Paul Butler, also from Dublin, pleaded guilty to tax charges related to Cadillac Ranch.
California Court Rules That Research Fee On Electric Rates Not A Tax
According to Proposition 13 passed in 1978 any tax increase has to be approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature. Proposition 26, passed in 2010, adjusted the meaning of “tax” to include certain fees and charges. The burden of showing that a charge is not a tax is on the state or the locality. SCE argued that EPIC is a tax. The Court noted that the distinction between a tax and a fee can be a bit blurry, but found that EPIC falls on the fee side of the blur.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.
