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Alabama will not participate in IRS’ new free Direct File program

Alabamians won’t be able to file their taxes using the IRS’ free Direct File service during the 2025 filing season.
July 31, 2024

Assisted living facility administrator indicted for fraud and embezzlement

Thursday, a four-count information was filed in U.S. District Court charging a former Oak Landing Assisted Living Facility employee with embezzling money and assets from a former resident at Oak Landing, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Special Agent in Charge Patrick M. Davis, United States Secret Service, Special Agent in Charge Rod Owens, Social … Continued
October 4, 2019

Jones partners with GOP senator to stop tax refund theft

Tax filing season has officially begun, and that means tax returns and tax refunds — not all of which are real. Tax filing season creates an opportunity for con artists to file fraudulent tax returns in an effort to steal real refunds that are owed to other taxpayers. Theft of tax refunds cost victims a … Continued
January 30, 2019

Morgan County sheriff agrees to plead guilty to failure to file a tax return

Morgan County Sheriff Ana Woodard Franklin has been charged for failing to file a tax return. The charge was announced by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman. The one-count information filed in United States District Court Tuesday charged Franklin, age 54, of Hartsell, with willfully failing … Continued
December 19, 2018

House Formally Votes to Hold Lois Lerner in Contempt

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In 2010, conservative and libertarian Americans angered over passage of the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) began organizing a political movement we now refer to as the Tea Party. President Obama began his presidency with a overwhelming Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and … Continued
May 8, 2014

Strange Set to Investigate Claims that IRS was Used to Target Alabama Groups

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Multiple media sources including the cable news site FoxNews and the website al.com are reporting that Alabama residents are among the persons who were wrongfully targeted by U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The IRS subsequently has apologized for a pattern of abuse that apparently started in 2010 and ran until … Continued
May 16, 2013