Tax Help Attorney IRS Defense Lawyer » tax saving scheme http://www.taxhelpattorney.com/blog Defending Taxpayers From The IRS Tax Collectors Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:18:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 IRS Slams Respected Attorney with $4.8 Million in Penalties http://www.taxhelpattorney.com/blog/irs-slams-respected-attorney-with-48-million-in-penalties/ http://www.taxhelpattorney.com/blog/irs-slams-respected-attorney-with-48-million-in-penalties/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:05:56 +0000 taxinator http://www.taxhelpattorney.com/blog/?p=36 Attorney Lewis B. Freeman, who is a well-known fraud investigator, forensic accountant and lawyer, has sued the IRS in an attempt to combat the $4.8 million civil penalty the IRS has slapped him with.

The IRS has accused Mr. Freeman of promoting abusive tax shelters in protest to unfair federal tax laws. The IRS has penalized him $1,000 for each of the 4,827 employees in the benefit plan which attempted to shelter income from taxation.

“This is like an episode from ‘The Twilight Zone,’” Freemen is quoted as saying in a recent online Forbes article.

In recent years the IRS has been accused of being too heavy-handed in its use of its power to massively penalize promoters of abusive tax shelters, especially in less severe situations or when the agency simply disagreed with an aggressive tax-saving strategy.

The Forbes article went on to say that Freeman is regularly quoted by journalists as an expert on fraud and white-collar crime. Freeman readily agreed that the mere existence of the litigation was embarrassing to him.

This is typical of the IRS, and the government in general. Once a government is given the authority and power to coerce or punish, it tends to use that power in a way that it was not originally intended, or in too harsh a manner.

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