September 27, 2023
An accountant who helped mariners take illegal meal deductions must pay nearly $5.7 million in tax penalties after failing to respond to a federal government lawsuit seeking to hold him accountable for fines issued 15 years ago, a California federal judge said.
April 20, 2023
An accountant who has tangled with the government for decades over whether mariners can deduct free meals should pay $5.5 million in penalties for helping sailors illegally claim thousands of the deductions, the government told a California federal court.