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Internal Revenue Service

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Miccosukee Casino Ripping Off Winners? Gamblers Sue The Tribe For Bingo Taxes

    Miami husband-and-wife John Ricone and Francys Tolon-Ricone were apparently wielding a hot blotter when they played bingo at the Miccosukee Resort & Gaming Indian casino in 2008. In two trips that year, they won just under $5,500. When the tribe paid them their winnings, they remitted $1,500 for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Young Buck and Five Other Rapper Evictions or Foreclosures

    Just two months after he was the target of a drive-by shooting in Nashville, Young Buck has come under fire yet again. But this time, it's Uncle Sam pulling the trigger and blowing smoke up Buck's ass. According to TMZ, the Internal Revenue Service is demanding that the former G-Unit rapper fork ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Tax Day Cheap Eats: RA Sushi, PF Chang's, Hooters and More

    Today is the deadline to pay the piper. Meet the deadline or dump a considerable portion of your blood, sweat and toil to the IRS.That's why restaurants across Miami are stepping up on your bedraggled behalf during on this national day of mourning to provide some cheap chow. Or maybe you're getting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Tax-Time Jitters? Try Omelets, Asparagus, and Kefir Milk

    Tax day is scheduled for next Tuesday, April 17. The IRS is giving us two extra days to file returns. This also means two extra days to worry about audits, refunds, proper documentation, math errors, and identity theft problems. Believe it or not, there are ways to muffle tax-time anxiety. Dr. Mehm ... More >>

  • Music

    February 16, 2012

    Young Money Cash Money Billionaires at Mekka February 17

    Tax day is scheduled for next Tuesday, April 17. The IRS is giving us two extra days to file returns. This also means two extra days to worry about audits, refunds, proper documentation, math errors, and identity theft problems. Believe it or not, there are ways to muffle tax-time anxiety. Dr. Mehm ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2011

    Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

    Tax day is scheduled for next Tuesday, April 17. The IRS is giving us two extra days to file returns. This also means two extra days to worry about audits, refunds, proper documentation, math errors, and identity theft problems. Believe it or not, there are ways to muffle tax-time anxiety. Dr. Mehm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Rep. Erik Fresen, Pro-Gambling Lawmaker, Owes Thousands To The IRS

    Rep. Erik FresenOver the past six months, state Rep. Erik Fresen has established himself as the go-to-politician for the gambling industry tycoons who want to bring gargantuan casino resorts to the Magic City. The lawmaker from Coral Gables is the mastermind behind one of two proposed bills that wou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    ​Lil Wayne Settles His $5.6 Million IRS Tax Debt

    ​Just 144 days after Lil Wayne wrapped up his eight-month stay on Rikers Island, bounced out the clink, and fled back to his Miami Beach mansion, the taxman came calling with an enormous bill from Uncle Sam. As reported by Riptide (via Detroit News) in April, the Young Money Maniac slipped up on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Time for Miami Tax Evaders to Come Forward, Warns Local Attorney

    The days of hidden offshore accounts are drawing to an end, it seems​Not everyone in Miami is on the up & up. Sure, your neighbor could have bought that brand-new Mercedes-Benz with the Christmas bonus. Or it could have been that narco slush fund in the Cayman Islands. The truth is that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    No, Your $4,000 Tax Refund Was Not Legit

    IRS: the tax man cometh.​Did you pay Tomeka Wimberly at Wizard Tax Services Inc. to fill out your return this year? Did she claim Doritos and Mountain Dew on your work expenses? How about the little known "new underwear credit"?And did you get a nice refund of roughly $4,000?If so, we hope you hav ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2011

    Lil Wayne and other famous Miamians owe the IRS millions in back taxes

    IRS: the tax man cometh.​Did you pay Tomeka Wimberly at Wizard Tax Services Inc. to fill out your return this year? Did she claim Doritos and Mountain Dew on your work expenses? How about the little known "new underwear credit"?And did you get a nice refund of roughly $4,000?If so, we hope you hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Lien Times: Meet Some Local Tax Cheats

    Weezy F. Baby needs E.F. Hutton​As the tax season draws to a close this week, some of our more recognizable citizens are probably wondering if Uncle Sam will catch them cheating on their taxes again. Take Lil Wayne, who was just popped by the Internal Revenue Service for not paying his fair share ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Lil Wayne Owes the IRS $5.6 Million

    ​It seemed Lil Wayne's big legal problems were over when he got out of the clink late last year, but the federal government still has beef with President Carter. The rapper owes about $5.6 million to the Internal Revenue Service, and a lien in that amount was filed against his Miami mansion in Mia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Trick Daddy Owes $150K to IRS, Had His Home Foreclosed On

    ​Trick Daddy may have a gift for capturing the soul of Miami streets in his lyrics, but apparently doesn't have much of a knack for keeping track of his finances. The Detroit News reports that Trick, real names Maurice Young, has had more than $157,000 in tax liens placed against him by the IRS, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Take One Cocktail Lounge: America's Wildest Strip Club?

    ​Watching bare booties jiggle can be quite a cathartic activity. But is it worth getting shot in the head? Such is the quandary at the heart of North Miami's Take One Cocktail Lounge. Take One is a tiny one-room club frequented by hip-hop stars like Rick Ross and DJ Khaled and packed nightly wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Haitian Presidential Candidate Wyclef Jean Owes the IRS $2.1 Million

    ​In case you weren't skeptical of Wyclef Jean's soon-to-be official candidacy to become president of poor, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Smoking Gun just posted some documents you might want to take a look at. The IRS has hit Jean with $2.1 million in tax liens over the last three years, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Migration Data Shows Northeasterners Continue to Invade Miami While Miamians Move North to the South

    via Forbes.com​Forbes.com has a fascinating interactive map up that uses IRS data from 2008 to show the migration of Americans on a county-to-county basis. Above is that data for Miami-Dade. Red lines represent migration patterns where more Miamians moved to a county than people from that county m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Billy Cypress, Miccosukee Tribe Casino Probed by IRS

    The Internal Revenue Service is investigating Billy Cypress, the former leader of the Miccosukee Tribe for income tax violation. Cypress, who oversaw the construction of the tribe's casino in Southwest Miami Dade, had a high roller's reputation that included frequent trips to Las Vegas, says the Mia ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2010

    Spending IRS Refund Could Be Taxing

    You're not going to deposit that refund check, are you?

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2010

    Brutal Business

    You're not going to deposit that refund check, are you?

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Uncle Sam Makes It Rain: How to Spend Your Tax Refund at Warp Speed

    This guy seemed appropriate. "It's free money from the government!!"​We have no idea how a tax refund works. All we know is Uncle Sam is a greedy bastard all but one day of the year, when he sends us a fat check with no strings attached. What a nasty little sycophant. That government check ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2010

    Angry dude Phil Busch called in bomb threats at Miami International Airport

    This guy seemed appropriate. "It's free money from the government!!"​We have no idea how a tax refund works. All we know is Uncle Sam is a greedy bastard all but one day of the year, when he sends us a fat check with no strings attached. What a nasty little sycophant. That government check ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2010

    Did fringe movement Sovereign Citizens trick a Miami man into filing a $14 trillion tax return?

    This guy seemed appropriate. "It's free money from the government!!"​We have no idea how a tax refund works. All we know is Uncle Sam is a greedy bastard all but one day of the year, when he sends us a fat check with no strings attached. What a nasty little sycophant. That government check ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Meet The Fringe Group That Tricked A Miami Felon Into Filing A $14 Trillion Tax Return

    Marlon T. "X-Large" Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.​Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims -- to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had paid out, ... More >>

  • News

    February 25, 2010

    North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso cheated the IRS, the bank, and his city

    Marlon T. "X-Large" Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.​Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims -- to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had paid out, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    Riptide's Ten Most Popular Posts of 2009

    Riptide put up somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 posts this year, so before we get started on writing 3,000 more it's time to sit back and look at some our successes: Our top ten posts by pageviews.Yeah, it's a collection of slightly seedy stuff, with abortion doughnuts, rape tunnels, and XXXra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    We Swear We Won't Watch Scott Storch's Reality Show -- OK, Just the Pilot

    In substance-abuse circles, you often hear talk of the moment you "hit rock bottom." For your average schmo, it usually involves stealing abuela's jewelry or fellatio behind a Burger King. For celebrities, there's an even more clear barometer of when you're smashing head-first into your own failure: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Tea Party Protests Make Less Sense than Pro Wrestling

    You know what never made sense to me? Back in the '90s, the WWF (now WWE) teamed up "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, a character who was a millionaire, with Irwin R. Schyster, AKA I.R.S., a tax man. Together they won three tag-team titles, but, dude, millionaires friggin' hate the IRS more than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    The Conchords: The Geekiest Rock Stars Ever

    Last Night: Flight of the ConchordsBetter Than: All the YouTube videos fit to click.By now, fans of HBO's off-kilter, musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords know that its number is up. The Conchords themselves, the duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, walking a nearly-flawless tightrope ... More >>

  • Film

    March 12, 2009

    A Room With A View

    Parque vía highlights second week of MFF.

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Crooked Lawyers Get Caught

    Hey, they were just trying to make a buck during this recession.

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Castroneves Charged with Tax Evasion

    Hey, they were just trying to make a buck during this recession.

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    Mayor of the Nude Beach

    So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2007

    Tax Day Gets Licked

    And it tastes like rocky road

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2007

    On the Road Campaign

    And it tastes like rocky road

  • Culture

    August 3, 2006

    Fear and Loafing in Wynwood

    Spaces practicing the art of staying cool during the summer

  • News

    March 23, 2006

    Letters from the Issue of March 23, 2006

    "If I were an IRS agent, I’d be looking for the missing millions"

  • Dining

    May 19, 2005

    Aging Hip

    "If I were an IRS agent, I’d be looking for the missing millions"

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2005

    No Ugly Ducklings

    "If I were an IRS agent, I’d be looking for the missing millions"

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of June 10, 2004

    Steel guitars, the Sambo Syndrome, scofflaw politicians, and Scully’s Tavern

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    To IRS With Love

    The restaurateur and candidate for county mayor has had major money problems

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST POLITICAL COUP

    New regime at Miami's Community Redevelopment Agency

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    Thug Meets Pug, Part 3

    In which North Bay Village Commissioner Bob Dugger displays exceptional flair as a businessman

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Money, Politics, and Cuba

    The Federal Election Commission has a few questions for an influential Miami political action committee

  • Music

    March 16, 2000

    Blue Skies over Willie

    Exotic sounds, imbued with heartache and romance

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Exotic sounds, imbued with heartache and romance

  • Music

    December 29, 1994

    Rotations 37

    Exotic sounds, imbued with heartache and romance

  • Music

    September 14, 1994

    Rotations 22

    Exotic sounds, imbued with heartache and romance

  • News

    April 14, 1993

    Program Notes 52

    Exotic sounds, imbued with heartache and romance

  • Music

    January 22, 1992

    Everything You Know Is Wrong

    Let our musical dictionary set you straight

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