SOUTHAVEN — Twenty-four current and former Internal Revenue Service employees have been charged with stealing government benefits, federal prosecutors said today. The IRS employees were indicted on charges that they illegally received more than $250,000 in benefits including unemployment insurance payments, food stamps, welfare, and housing vouchers, the U.S. attorney’s office in Memphis said in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 11,2013
Tags: bench, court, federal government, fraud, income tax, judge, justice, law, legal, tax, tax filing, tax return
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors are seeking to shut down a Memphis-based company on claims it prepared false tax returns in at least three states. The Department of Justice said it is suing Mo Money Taxes and requesting an injunction to stop it from serving as a federal tax preparer. Mo Money Taxes was criticized [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, cigar, cigarette, court, decision, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, pipe, retail, ruling, smoke, smoking, tax, tobacco
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has sided with tobacco companies who argued that a state tax on cigarettes sold at retail outlets outside the state was unfair. Yesterday’s decision overturned a 2011 decision by a Hinds County judge who found the tax fair. However, the issue is moot because lawmakers repealed the tax in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 3,2013
Tags: annexation, city government, consultant, dispute, municipal, municipality, property, real estate, tax, taxpayer
D’IBERVILLE — The annexation battle between Biloxi and D’Iberville is finally over, and representatives for D’Iberville say they are the winners. The area in dispute was along Mississippi Highway 67. The state Supreme Court on March 21 upheld the annexation ruling that kept in Harrison County part of the annexation area requested by both cities [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 1,2013
Tags: apprpriation, budget, city, city government, economy, fund, funding, municipal, municipality, reserve, retail, sales, Sales Tax, shop, shopper, shopping, tax, tax collection
COLUMBUS — Sales tax collections continue to lag behind last year’s revenue, raising questions about whether the city will have to amend its budget or dip into reserves to make up the difference. The Commercial Dispatch reports January revenue was reported at about $626,000, a drop of more than $24,000 from the same period in [...] [...]
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant has vetoed a bill that would’ve given municipal powers to the board that operates the Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson. Republican Bryant, who lived near the reservoir for more than 20 years, says the bill would’ve given “unlimited taxing authority to an unelected board to provide unspecified municipal services in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, conviction, court, crime, false tax returns, federal court, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, panel, sentence, tax, tax return, tax return preparer
OXFORD — A federal appeals court panel has upheld the conviction of an Oxford tax return preparer for filing dozens of false returns. Thelbert Lamont Lesure was sentenced to three years in prison in 2012 for filing false tax returns. Lesure was indicted on 21 counts. He pleaded guilty one count of knowingly preparing and [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 25,2013
Tags: acquisition, bid, city government, county government, purchase, sale, sell, state agency, state government, tax, tax-forfeited property
MERIDIAN — The Secretary of State’s Office recently received 183 bids to purchase 103 parcels of tax-forfeited properties in Meridian and Lauderdale County, effectively returning more than $62,000 to local property tax coffers. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said, “Tax-forfeited properties are a blight on the community. Returning these properties to private taxpaying ownership also [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013
Tags: attorney, cdriminal, crime, federal government, fine, fraud, insurance, law, lawyer, legal, penalty, restitution, tax, tax fraud, wire fraud
ABERDEEN — The U.S. government is seeking $914,162 in restitution unpaid by a former Mississippi attorney convicted in a tax and mail fraud case in 2009. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports prosecutors filed a payment affidavit this week in U.S. District Court in Oxford. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock has scheduled an April 2 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 6,2013
Tags: beer, bill, executive, governor, home brewing, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, Legislature, tax
JACKSON — The House has sent a bill to Gov. Phil Bryant that would legalize home brewing in Mississippi. House members voted 70-36 today to approve Senate Bill 2183, which allows people 21 and older to brew up to 200 gallons of beer each year, as long as they live in a city or county [...] [...]
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