Mitt Romney isn't the only one in Washington, DC, with his tax returns under the microscope. According to new data released by the IRS, 3 percent of Senate employees and more than 4 percent of House members still owe tax for the 2010 tax year, adding up to approximately $10.6 million in unpaid taxes.

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The entire financial crisis of 2008 was about credit and confidence, and the same holds true today. That was the message delivered by the former general counsel of Lehman Brothers, Kevin Genirs, during his keynote address February 1, 2012, at the LegalTech® conference in New York City.

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Concerns about cheating in school are nothing new, but they usually don't include teachers. The widespread scandals of teachers cheating on standardized tests provide the wrong ethical guidance to those who will later staff and lead business organizations.

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AccountingWEB's Weekly News Update for the week of January 9, 2012 is available in video format!

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A lawsuit – filed by the IRS on December 27, 2011, in federal court in Tampa, Florida – aims to recover the funds issued to Hal Steinbrenner, managing general partner of the Yankees, on December 28, 2009. The refund resulted from a dispute between the Steinbrenner family and the IRS for the 2001 tax year as well as audits of the team's parent company for the 2001 and 2002 tax years.

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It's Hammer time: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is going after MC Hammer for $779,585 it claims he owes in back taxes dating back to 1996 and 1997. According to entertainment news outlet TMZ, the federal government has initiated a lawsuit to recover the tax debt from Hammer.

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Nicolas Cage has faced plenty of tax troubles in the past. According to the 'Business Insider,' he currently owes over $14 million. Now a new lawsuit is targeting the accounting practices of one of his films, 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans,' a crime drama released in 2009.

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Chiquita Q. Broadnax, a resident of Montgomery County, AL, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for her involvement in a fraudulent tax return perpetration scheme.

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When will a small minority of tax professionals learn that crime doesn't pay? You would think they would know better.

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The United States has sued Crystal Ireland and her business, Master Mind Preparation, to bar them from preparing tax returns for others.

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Do you tell your clients to comply with the tax law? Make sure you practice what you preach. In an extreme example, a tax return preparer in Washington D.C. is facing criminal charges in federal court for allegedly scamming the IRS out of almost $14 million.

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A self-proclaimed rap "gangsta" is going to jail for committing a white-collar crime: tax evasion. Multi-platinum selling artist Ja Rule (whose real name is Jeffrey Adkins) has been sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for failing to report more than $3 million in earnings from 2004 through 2006.

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Violence broke out at Glastonbury Festival on Friday night after members of direct action group Art Uncut clashed with security staff over U2's tax s...

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A Texas attorney accused of willfully failing to file his federal tax returns has been disbarred from practicing before the IRS. The attorney argued that his failures to file and pay were not the result of willful conduct but were due to personal circumstances beyond his control.

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A Salt Lake City tax planner has been sentenced to 10 months of prison, 12 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay the costs of prosecution for willfully failing to file a federal income tax return for 2001.

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