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Local business owner pleads guilty to filing false tax documents

Law 10/07/2021

PROVIDENCE – The owner of the Providence-based business R.I.J. Inc. pleaded guilty to charges related to underreporting and failing to pay taxes on income,...

THE R.I. SENATE has passed a bill that would raise the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ARTISTIC IMAGES

R.I. issues guidance for businesses filing taxes on PPP loans

Economy 07/27/2021

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Revenue and Division of Taxation issued tax filing guidance on Monday for businesses that received Paycheck Protection Program...

IRS will delay tax filing due date until May 17

Economic Activity 03/17/2021

Americans will be getting extra time to prepare their taxes. The Internal Revenue Service says it's delaying the traditional tax filing deadline from April...

IRS affirms R.I. policy on SALT cap workaround for small-business owners

Economic Activity 12/02/2020

PROVIDENCE – In a year of continued uncertainty, Rhode Island small-business owners now have more surety that a state law letting them skirt the...

GOING IT ALONE: Katie Murano, a sole proprietor with a wedding photography business, has lost all of her 2020 jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has struggled to qualify for relief programs because of the structure of her business. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Getting aid a struggle for many sole proprietors

Coronavirus 11/20/2020

A sole proprietorship seemed like the best option when Katie Murano started her wedding photography business in January. Having previously owned an event-planning business as...

Neronha offers guidance on stimulus debit cards

Financial Services 06/08/2020

PROVIDENCE – Amid a mailbox full of credit card offers and scams could be your federal stimulus money. In addition to direct deposits and mailed...

NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY and Connecticut have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over a provision in the 2017 tax law that limited write-offs for state and local taxes. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

N.Y., N.J. & Conn., pursue another battle in SALT deduction war

Economic Activity 07/17/2019

NEW YORK – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are again suing President Donald Trump’s administration over a provision in the 2017 tax law...

A SCITUATE BUSINESSMAN pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion this week in U.S. District Court in Providence./ COURTESY CAROL M. HIGHSMITH

Scituate businessman pleads guilty to evading paying $428,700 in federal taxes

Government 04/23/2019

PROVIDENCE – A Scituate businessman, who prosecutors say claimed he was not a United States citizen on his tax forms and that his earnings...

JILL MARTINHO, of Swansea, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to causing a loss of $557,974 to Walco Electric Co. and to willfully filing false tax returns. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CAROL M. HIGHSMITH

Woman defrauds Providence company of over $557,000

Government 04/01/2019

PROVIDENCE – A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty to defrauding a Providence company of more than $557,000 and to willfully filing false tax returns in...