TaxCourt

    By Kelly Phillips Erb

    | 1:00PM 1/27/2010
    It hasn't been a fun January for Arizona Cardinals safety Antrel Rolle. First, his team was eliminated from the NFL playoffs by the Super Bowl-bound New Orleans Saints. Rolle left that game early with a head injury. Now the IRS is giving Rolle a second pounding with a bill for $2.2 million bill...

    By Kelly Phillips Erb

    | 10:00AM 1/23/2010
    In 2008, about 1.4 million taxpayers were chosen for audit. This represents about 1% of the 140 million tax returns filed -- pretty good odds. Of those, about two-thirds were correspondence, or "paper" audits, and the remaining one third were field or "in person" audits. Even though the numbers of...

    By Kelly Phillips Erb

    | 8:00AM 1/20/2010
    It may be hard to believe, but it turns out that your chances of fighting the IRS in court -- and winning -- are actually better than getting hit by lightning (1 in 6,250), dying after a shark attack (9 in 152) or even having twins (3 in 100). In fact, the National Taxpayer Advocate's office found...

    By Tracy Coenen

    | 1:30PM 2/04/2008
    Richard Hatch, the first million-dollar winner of the reality television show Survivor was convicted of three counts of filing false tax returns in early 2006. He was sentenced to more than four years in prison, but appealed his conviction.Now this guy is no rocket scientist. He won a million...