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A financial consultant who performed contract work for the IRS pleaded guilty Thursday to leaking reams of confidential tax returns filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of then-President Donald Trump. Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, admitted in D.C. federal court that he obtained thousands of individuals’ tax returns by accessing an IRS database, and then leaked the materials to the New York Times and ProPublica beginning in 2019. The news organizations published blockbuster reports based on the trove of data, showing how Trump and the wealthiest Americans employed financial strategies to slash their federal tax bills, in some cases down...

On this year's tax returns, filers must deal with several tricky new rules and paperwork requirements stemming from ObamaCare. You'll have to start dealing with the tax implications of the health insurance program as soon as new ObamaCare documents reach you, swirling in the blizzard of IRS forms that you receive, starting in January. The key paperwork that you'll be looking for is a Form 1094-B from your insurer or a Form 1095-C from your employer. Those verify that you had the health insurance required by ObamaCare, known formally as the Affordable Care Act. If that or Medicare was the...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) -- The Secret Service said Wednesday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records during a break-in at an accounting office in Franklin. Someone claiming responsibility demanded $1 million not to make them public.

A Middle Tennessee company is at the center of a mystery that could turn the political race upside down. The Secret Service wants to know if a group hacked into Price Waterhouse Cooper's computer system in Franklin and got Mitt Romney's tax records. "Right through here and it was just lying on the floor there," Peter Burr recalled.

Do employers currently list the healthcare benefits paid to an employee on their W2s? Trying to clarify an arguement. Thank you in advance. PS, I hope I put this thread in the right place.

University of California officials said Monday they are fixing the tax forms of more than a dozen executives, after an audit found their pay wasn't reported correctly. UC President Robert C. Dynes said he and 19 other senior managers will get corrected W-2 forms for benefits the university did not properly report as taxable compensation. UC executive pay has been an issue for several months following a series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that UC quietly paid top leaders millions in stipends and other compensation at a time when student fees were being hiked to offset state...

<p>ALBANY, N.Y. -- Remember all those gifts you bought online during the holidays? Now it's time to pay sales tax on them, at least so say the income tax forms of 20 states, including Maine.</p> <p>The latest to outstretch that revenue-seeking hand are New York and California, which this year added a line requiring taxpayers to declare any tax they owe on out-of-state purchases.</p>