Two defendants who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds have pleaded guilty in federal court. The tax fraud scheme attempted to receive nearly $100 million in fraudulent ...

There are all sorts of reasons for why I write about all sorts of legal and regulatory matters. Sometimes it's the esoteric legal points raised in a case or the heart wrenching circumstances of what ...

An Orange County man who scored $14 million in illegal refunds for his clients was convicted Thursday of conspiracy and wire fraud. Ronald L. Brekke, 55, helped prepare phony tax forms for nearly ...

QI own some U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) that I purchased from Treasury Direct. This year I received a form 1099-OID that shows a negative amount for my 2006 amount of Original ...

In the first installment of this series on a family office’s oversight and administration of cost basis, we gave a few simple illustrations of how a brokerage firm’s 1099 can provide incomplete or ...