At this point, I decided I needed professional help to get these people off my back so I enlisted the services of an accountant in Boca Raton, Fla. He had lived many years in Toronto so was very familiar with the intricacies of cross-border taxation. As I explained my problem to him, ...
then sat for what seemed like hours as the accountant poured over them. Finally the IRS agent looked up and commented, "You must have been a tremendous fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." "Why would you say that?" wondered the broker. "Because you've made more brilliant deductions on your ...
"If that's the case, we're not going to take someone's liberty from them, on something that a (certified public accountant) with a master's degree doesn't even know. That's a scary country, and I don't live in that country." J. Gregory Damm, the assistant U.S. attorney who ...
A man, called to testify at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), asked his accountant for advice on what to wear. "Wear your shabbiest clothing. Let him think you are a pauper," the accountant replied. Then he asked his lawyer the same question but got the opposite advice. "Do not let...