Internal Revenue Service

Tax Day Food and Cocktail Specials in Miami

Every year, that old bromide is bandied about: The only two things certain in this world are death and taxes. We're not so sure about cheating the IRS or the Grim Reaper (we'd love to do both), but we do know that you can at least have a clever cocktail or a bite to eat.Whether you're celebrating a ... More >>

Troubled Homestead Nonprofit Seeks Private Donations to Pay Debt

Galata Inc., a Homestead social service agency that received a no-questions-asked $500,000 county grant in 2008 to pay off a mortgage, is now seeking private donations to help pay down another loan. In January, the Miami-Dade Inspector General's Office criticized Galata officials for misusing $99,00 ... More >>

Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll Resigns Over Ties to Racketeering Case

Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned this morning over ties to a nonprofit busted by the IRS and Secret Service on racketeering and fraud charges. It's a shocking end to a stormy tenure for Carroll, who managed to turn a lesbian-love-affair scandal into an insult to the LGBT community and dodg ... More >>

Tax Refund Scams Plagued Miami-Dade In 2012

With another tax season descending on us, you might want to secure your W-2 or 1099 a little tighter. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami has uncovered more than a dozen rackets involved in stealing tax refund checks using stolen identities of social security applicants, eld ... More >>

Real Housewife Alexia Echevarria and Her Husband Herman Owe Nearly $100K in Taxes

Original Real Housewives of Miami cast member Alexia Echevarria, the self proclaimed "Cuban Barbie," and her Hialeah powerbroker husband Herman have had a whirlwind year that has now been capped off by having a lien placed on their house for failing to pay nearly $100,000 in back taxes from 2009.

Fat Joe Pleads Guilty to $3.7-Million Tax Evasion, Faces Two Years in Prison

These days, Fat Joe ain't so fat. But he owes an obese (or is that obscene?) amount of back taxes to the IRS. According to a press release from the Department of Justice: "Joseph Cartagena, the rapper popularly known as 'Fat Joe,' pleaded guilty [in New Jersey] today to two counts of failing to fil ... More >>

Miami-Dade August 14 Election: A Haters Guide

The Five Worst Primary Candidates: Our Haters Guide To Next Tuesday's Election

With Miami's primary elections rolling in on August 14, Banana Republican decided to do Dade a solid by tallying up the worst scalawags, scoundrels, and scumbags who weaseled onto the ballot. Rock the vote, long live democracy, and all that jazz.But honestly, we'd rather you stay at home and watch D ... More >>

George Clinton and Four Other Funky Brothers Who Owe the IRS Back Taxes

He's considered the forefather of funk and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 15 years ago. But to the Federal Government and the Internal Revenue Service, George Clinton is a delinquent. According to TMZ, Clinton owes Uncle Sam more than $115,000 in unpaid taxes from 2007 and 200 ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Young Money Cash Money Billionaires at Mekka February 17

Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

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 >>

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Spending IRS Refund Could Be Taxing

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

Brutal Business

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

A Room With A View

Parque vía highlights second week of MFF.

Crooked Lawyers Get Caught

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

Castroneves Charged with Tax Evasion

Tax Day Gets Licked

And it tastes like rocky road

On the Road Campaign

Fear and Loafing in Wynwood

Spaces practicing the art of staying cool during the summer

Letters from the Issue of March 23, 2006

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

Aging Hip

No Ugly Ducklings

Letters from the Issue of June 10, 2004

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

To IRS With Love

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

Money, Politics, and Cuba

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

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