Is filing your income tax return getting you down? Check out these weird stories about tax season and the IRS
"Take it all off!" is great advice if your stripping, but not if your filing a tax return. An exotic dancer faces five felony charges for failing to report the $80,000 a year she'd been clearing in tips.
George Coker died in May 2007, and his chances of stimulating the economy with a $600 check from the federal government are rather slim. Nevertheless, the check was made out to "George A. Coker DECD," and we, the living, know what "DECD" stands for.
Willie Nelson, Boris Becker, Darryl Strawberry, and Richard Hatch are among those who got in serious trouble for failing to give the IRS its due.
A county in North Carolina wants to put a tax on dogs and cats of up to $30 a year. Ferret and hamsters remain tax-exempt. For now.
Some companies request tax deductions for philanthropy, others for restaurants bills. But one Israeli business tried to push the envelope by asking to deduct nearly $860,000 it paid in kickbacks.
