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Connecticut employers found by Department of Revenue Services (DRS) auditors to have misclassified their workers can face large tax assessments along with penalties and interest. In most cases these assessments are substantial. However, before this happens, DRS is encouraging employers to apply to the state’s Voluntary Disclosure Program. DRS Commissioner Kevin B. Sullivan said Voluntary Disclosure […]

Following a thorough internal investigation, Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS) Tax Enforcement Agents arrested an employee on charges that confidential taxpayer information was viewed without authorization. DRS employee Adrian Nelson, 33, of Windsor was arrested at DRS headquarters on one count each of Unauthorized Inspection of Tax Return Information and Computer Crime in the […]

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services released Information Publication 2011(16) which states that a purchaser who fails to withhold a sufficient amount of the purchase price as required, is liable, to the extent of the purchase price, valued in money, for the seller’s sales and use taxes, admissions and dues tax or income tax withholding liability. […]

We frequently represent taxpayers involved in Connecticut Department of Revenue Exams for Sales Tax, Withholding Tax and Income Tax as well as DRS criminal tax cases.  The DRS is clearly getting more aggressive in its attempt to collect taxes owed to the State of Connecticut. Consider the following: The DRS Collection & Enforcement Division collected […]