IRS Investigating Liberal Calif. Church
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LOS ANGELES - The Internal Revenue Service has ordered a prominent liberal church to turn over documents and e-mails it produced during the 2004 election year that contain references to political candidates.
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The Internal Revenue Service has over $73 million in undeliverable refund checks. The reason? The agency has the wrong address for the taxpayers due the money.
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The Franchise Tax Board has started its annual sweep of California taxpayers who file returns as a head of household, but may not be one.
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The Roman Catholic Church and the wealthy evangelical Christian Howard Ahmanson Jr. have emerged as the biggest financial backers of the campaign against a California ballot measure that would fund stem cell research and cloning projects.
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A church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant from Mexico and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 for the city police presence during a weekend protest, officials said.
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The Internal Revenue Service does a poor job in identifying tax-exempt groups that may have links to terrorists, according to a report released Friday.
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Recent raids on museums in Southern California have stirred questions about why three federal agencies would devote four years to investigating what seems to be low-level smuggling and penny-ante tax fraud.
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WILLMAR, Minn. - After its last pastor allegedly bilked them out of $10,000, leaders of Rejoice Ministries church thought they were being extra careful when they hired James Poole.
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(InfoWorld) - If you get an e-mail telling you that you're under investigation by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, take a breath before calling your lawyer. It's a scam. The IRS warned Thursday of two fraudulent schemes that use the IRS's name in an attempt to get victims to install malicious Trojan Horse software on their computers. In the first scam, the e-mail claims to come from the IRS Criminal Investigation division. It says that the victim is under investigation for filing a false tax return. An attachment to the e-mail, which appears to be the IRS's complaint, actually installs malicious software that gives the criminals access to the victim's PC. The second scam e-mail says a complaint about the victim's "business services" has been brought against them and advises that this can be arbitrated by the IRS. The "complaint" attachment included in this scam is actually a new type of Trojan Horse called Backdoor.Robofo, according to security vendor Symantec. Dispute arbitration is something the IRS doesn't do, according to Michelle Lamishaw, an IRS spokeswoman. "We're in the tax business. We're not in the arbitration business," she said. In fact, any time you get an unexpected e-mail from the IRS, it's almost certainly fake. "The IRS does not send out unsolicited e-mails," Lamishaw said. But because these e-mail messages appear to come from the taxman and relate to hot-button topics, some users may click, security researchers warn. "The use of legalese in the message content may intimidate some users into opening the attachment," wrote Symantec researcher Orla Cox, in a entry to the company's Security Response Weblog, posted Thursday. The IRS became aware of both scams over the past few days as samples of the e-mail messages were submitted by taxpayers to the phishing@irs.gov e-mail address that is used for reporting scams, Lamishaw said.
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  A candidate for Salt Lake City mayor is questioning whether The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints belongs in the downtown renovation business.
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By Leigh Dethman and Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  Salt Lake County leaders are fighting to keep $15 million in restaurant-tax revenue, which they would lose under a bill that cleared a Senate committee Wednesday.
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Two Roman Catholic priests allegedly   misappropriated more than $8 million from their church and   spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on real estate, travel,   rare coins and girlfriends, police in Florida said on Friday.
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Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president have received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches.
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It could just be fear of Rudy Giuliani, but some evangelical leaders are seeing a savior in the GOP's great Mormon hope
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They helped re-elect the President, and Christian conservatives want payback. A look inside the struggle over their agenda
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US Tax officers are investigating Latin American airlines claiming that they may owe taxes on salaries for crew members.
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About 60 charities, churches and other tax-exempt groups are being investigated for potentially breaking federal rules that bar them from participating in political activity, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.