Monday, February 8, 2016

Attorney General Files Lawsuit against Alleged Perpetrators of Tax Sale Scam

Indiana State Attorney General Greg Zoeller has filed a lawsuit alleging that the defendants listed in the lawsuit are guilty of fraud. The lawsuit claims that the three out of state business owners listed in the suit took unfairly took advantage of naïve and gullible residents of Indiana who had failed to stay on par with their real estate taxes and did not completely comprehend the sales tax process in its entirety, as reported by indystar.com.


Zoeller along with some Indiana state tax lawyers filed the lawsuit in the jurisdiction of Marion Superior County. The objective of the lawsuit is to essentially recover as much as $9 million in compensatory damages from the three out of state business owners. The company’s that the business owners are associated with are based in Florida, Oklahoma, and Nevada.

The plaintiffs allege that the scam carried out was rather complicated and very well-orchestrated on the whole. It describes the defendants as unscrupulous and claims they took advantage of helpless Hoosiers who were lagging on real-estate tax payments and did not really comprehend how the sales tax process functions. Who really does? America’s tax code is rife with complexity – not even the top officials at the IRS understand the tax code.  

Allegedly, the fraudsters would be on the lookout for properties that were sold as the owners failed to pay real estate tax payments. They would approach the owner before the property was redeemed by the tax-sale buyer and would offer the oblivious owner a few hundred dollars in order for them to overturn their remaining legal rights to the property explain state tax attorneys.

If you legal help you are not the only one. Flipping off the IRS only inflames the situation. Ignoring the IRS hoping they will forget who you are is not going to work either. We all pay too many taxes and most likely the money will be wasted on programs that do not work but that is beside the point. You have to pay something. Not paying anything does not make sense.

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Nearly 50 People have Fallen Victim to the Fraud Say Plaintiffs

The Indiana State Attorney General has testified that as many as at least 48 property owners in at least four counties, namely, Marion County, Allen County, Johnson County, and Lake County have been defrauded by the defendants. Some people believe these white collar criminals deserve the death penalty. But America has a president in office who would rather play golf than do what is right.

One particular scam that was highlighted in the lawsuit is where the defendants paid a property owner a mere $450 and were able to coax the owner into giving them a quitclaim deed which essentially transferred the legal ownership of the property to the defendants, say tax lawyers closely following the case.
In some other cases, authorities were able to cut in and block the defendants from swindling the property owner, but many property owners weren’t nearly as lucky.

Scott Congel Lawsuit Dismissed by Judge

A lawsuit filed by property developer Scot Congel which is centered around claims that Monroe County wrongfully closed his 30-year tax deal on the Medley Centre has been tossed by a Supreme Court Judge, according to Syracuse.com.


The Medley Center is a deadbeat mall in the proximity of Rochester and Congel claims that the County had done him wrong by terminating his tax deal. However, the Supreme Court found that Congel had not paid taxes amounting to as much as $3.9 million and hence the County of Monroe were within their legal scope to end the tax deal.

Dealing with tax issues can be a daunting task especially when there is a risk of being called out by the unpopular IRS for non-payment, back taxes, or any unintentional errors that could have you charged with tax fraud. If you need help with tax issues don’t hesitate to call a tax lawyer today. 

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