Can Your Tax Client (or You) Go to Jail? (Part 1)— footnotes


1IRS, “Statistical Data-General Tax Fraud,” (2006), available at www.irs.gov.

2IRS, “Tax Return Preparer Fraud,” (February 2006), available at www.irs.gov.

3See, e.g., “Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional Misconduct and Discipline,” available at www.op.nysed.gov.

4IRM 9.5.13.2, Civil Tax and Penalty Assessments on the Criminal Tax Investigation.

5Helvering v. Mitchell, 303 US 391 (1938).

6Bickham Lincoln-Mercury Inc., 168 F3d 790 (5th Cir. 1999).

7Mertens, Law of Federal Income Taxation (Callaghan and Co., 2004), Section 55.3.

 8This could occur, for example, when a false return was filed as part of a scheme to evade taxes.

9IRM 38.3.1.4, Dual and Successive Prosecution.

10U.S. Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual, Ch. 3, Part D, Introductory Commentary (November. 2005).

11The Plain Dealer (3/15/04) E1. Available through global.factiva.com.

12U.S. Sentencing Commission, note 10 supra, at Section 2T1.1(c)(1), Notes.

13See, e.g., Leona M. Helmsley, 941 F2d 71, 84 (2d Cir. 1991), cert. denied.

14Compare S. Mohammad Marashi, 913 F2d 724, 735–36 (9th Cir. 1990).

15Amos Davenport, 824 F2d 1511 (7th Cir. 1987).

16Id.

17IRM 9.5.13.2.1, Criminal v. Civil Tax.

18Id.

19Id.

20H.J. Michey Sallee, 984 F2d 643 (5th Cir. 1993).

21Spies, 317 US 492 (1943).

22Id.

23Id.

24Id.

25Sand, Modern Federal Jury Instructions, Inst. 59-8 (Lexis Nexis, Matthew Bender 2005).

26See John L. Cheek, 498 US 192, 201 (1991).

27Id. at 205-06.

28Peter Pomponio, 429 US 10 (1976).

29William Goichman, 407 FSupp 980 (ED PA 1976), aff’d per curiam 547 F2d 778 (3d Cir. 1976).

30Kim, 884 F2d 189, 192 (5th Cir. 1989).

31Spies, 317 US 492 (1943).

32Donald Ferris, 807 F2d 269, 271 (1st Cir. 1986), cert. denied.

33William Ming, 466 F2d 1000 (7th Cir. 1972), cert. denied 409 US 915 (1972).

34Cecil J. Bishop, 412 US 346 (1973).

35Charles D. McCorkle, 511 F2d 482 (7th Cir. 1975).

36Sand, note 25 supra, at Inst. 59-15.

37Robert L. Mosel, 738 F2d 157 (6th Cir. 1984).

38Roy D. Garner, 424 US 648, 663, n. 18 (1976).

39Louis Goldstein, 502 F2d 526 (3d. Cir. 1974).

40Spies, note 31 supra.

41William Ming, note 33 supra.

42James Tucker, 686 F2d 230 (5th Cir. 1982).

43Montgomery, 203 F2d 887, 889 (5th Cir. 1953).

44Lavon T. Hanson, 2 F3d 942 (9th Cir. 1993).

45Id.

46Id.

47Sand, note 25 supra, at Inst. 59-23.

48Frances DiRico, 78 F3d 732 (1st Cir. 1996).

49See, e.g., Julius Klausner, 80 F3d 55, 60 (2d Cir. 1996); and Darrell Clifton, 127 F3d 969 (10th Cir. 1997).

50Kenneth H. Winchell, 129 F3d 1093 (10th Cir. 1997).

51Franklin Boykoff, 2d Cir., 5/21/2003.

52Shortt Accountancy Corp., 785 F2d 1448 (9th Cir. 1986).

53Alexander Marabelles, 724 F2d 1374 (9th Cir. 1984).

54Crooks, 804 F2d 1441 (9th Cir. 1986).

55Joseph T. Coveney, 995 F2d 578 (5th Cir. 1993).

56Leona Helmsley, note 13 supra.

57Charles Edwards, 375 F2d 862 (9th Cir. 1967).

58Sand, note 25 supra, at Inst. 59-29.

59Peter Pomponio, note 28 supra.

60See, e.g., “Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional Misconduct and Discipline,” note 3 supra.