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Online retailers Amazon, Overstock.com in tax dispute with states

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Soon after dropping its California and Hawaii-based marketing affiliates over online tax issues, Overstock.com reversed its decision after state offic...

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Ex-CEO of BDO Seidman, 6 others indicted in tax shelter case

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The former head of BDO Seidman LLP and six others face conspiracy and tax evasion charges relating to an alleged tax-shelter fraud that created $7 bil...

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Jail for accountants in tax shelter case

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A former senior manager and a former partner of KPMG who left the Big Four firm more than a decade ago to form their own business were sentenced and f...

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Avoiding holiday liability

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The holidays should be a cheerful, festive and happy time of year. However, the holidays can provide fertile ground for potential legal liability agai...

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Deloitte accuses former partner of insider trading

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Deloitte has filed a lawsuit against a former partner in its Chicago office, contending the man traded on inside information related to audit clients....

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PwC pays $97 million to Ohio pension funds in AIG case

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Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has agreed to pay three Ohio pension funds $97.5 million to settle its part of a securities class action filed ag...

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Six defendants found guilty in Chicago tax fraud trial

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Six defendants were convicted Monday after participating in a nationwide tax scheme that enabled 650 wealthy taxpayers to cheat the government out of ...

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Federal regulators dismiss charges against H&R Block

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Federal regulators have dismissed a November 2004 complaint against H&R Block Inc.'s brokerage business. The civil fraud charges had alleged sales...

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SEC foils Craig's List identity theft scammers

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The Securities and Exchange Commission took action last week to stop a sophisticated Internet scheme that stole the identities of unsuspecting individ...

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Ex-KPMG partner charged in new case

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Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Robert Pfaff, 57, of Englewood, CO, a former partner at KPMG, with conspiracy to defraud the United State...

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