Taxfilter: Is it possible to negotiate with the IRS? [more inside]
posted by brigita on Apr 13, 2009 - 8 answers

My friend got pulled over on an insurance check yesterday (UK). It turns out that the insurance company cancelled his policy 2 months ago because there were insufficient funds for the direct debit. How can he fight this? [more inside]
posted by Happycat79 on Jul 28, 2008 - 6 answers

Have I been penalized by Google? I used to be #2 for my main keyword in google. However, since mid Jan my site has dropped off of the face of google for all my keywords. I initially thought they dropped me from their index. Looking at google webmaster tools I get crawled almost every day, I have a PR of 5, over 800 backlinks pointing in, and google has over 47,000 pages of my site indexed. I have been given no notice of any penalty. There are a lot of sites reporting the same results in google’s webmaster forum. [more inside]
posted by quibx on Jan 24, 2007 - 16 answers

What's the point of this move when the success rate of penalty kicks is already quite high? [more inside]
posted by reformedjerk on Nov 22, 2006 - 9 answers

I cashed in some stock options and forgot to tell the IRS, now they want $9,401. I don't think I owe them that much..... [more inside]
posted by elastic.scorn on Feb 27, 2006 - 8 answers

I would like to track down a local rumor with an Urban Legend feel... [more inside]
posted by ObscureReferenceMan on Jan 24, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm trying to find out the penalty for a third conviction of possession of a controlled substance in California. My friend is contemplating, as a last resort, calling the police on her sister, a methamphetamine abuser. I haven't been able to find anything.
posted by camfys on Jul 16, 2005 - 25 answers

So Lucent got fined yesterday, to the tune of mamny millions of dollars, byt the SEC for the criminal euphemism of Account Irregularities.
Like other high profile SEC investigations, why do they always mention the fine, but never discuss where the funds go?
Are they used to offset the defrauded investor's losses? Or does the gov't turn the investor's loss into it's gain by keeping the fine for its own purposes?
posted by Fupped Duck on May 18, 2004 - 3 answers