Some people enjoy the details in managing money: Shopping for the best interest rates. Balancing checkbooks to the penny. ...more

January 27, 2008

A longtime tax adviser warned actor Wesley Snipes he could get in trouble by hiring new accountants who said he didn't have to pay taxes, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. ...more

January 17, 2008

People don't like to pay a financial adviser to manage their portfolios. Those in financial trouble find it ironic that they have to pay a bankruptcy attorney to go broke. And we especially aren't too pleased about having to hire a tax professional to fill out our tax returns. ...more

January 13, 2008

Hillsborough Circuit Judge Frank Gomez will decide whether Cory Lake Isles developer Gene Thomason can keep his business finances private. ...more

January 2, 2008

Former lottery multimillionaire Rhoda Toth has agreed to plead guilty to signing a false tax return. ...more

November 3, 2007

Former lottery multimillionaire Rhoda Toth has agreed to plead guilty to signing a false tax return. Toth's husband, Alex, has been declared incompetent to stand trial and is being evaluated in a federal medical correctional facility in North Carolina. ...more

November 2, 2007

I'm always sad to see the summer end. The kids go back to school and the relaxed attitudes that go hand-in-hand with hot weather shift. But the one thing I don't mind about the change in seasons is an opportunity to clean out my closet. ...more

September 23, 2007

TAMPA - An auto repair business owner was arrested and charged with stealing more than $47,000 in unreported sales tax collected from customers, the Florida Department of Revenue announced. William Mitchell, 40, owner of Z-Fever Inc., 4607-A Lois Ave., was arrested by deputies on Monday, the DOR says in a written statement. ...more

September 18, 2007

The Internal Revenue Service may be losing hundreds of millions of dollars because it won't spend the time and money to match millions of income statements with incorrect or missing identification numbers to existing tax accounts, an IRS watchdog said Tuesday. ...more

September 12, 2007