The US Justice Department has accused Scott Waage, a tax lawyer in San Diego, of using illegal tax schemes to withhold $10.8 million in clients’ assets that should have been paid to the IRS.
The complaint alleging Waage’s use of fraudulent tax shelters comes on the heels of another complaint filed against attorneys Charles Klink and Caleb Grodsky, who allegedly used an illegal tax scheme designed to help them avoid paying corporate taxes on income generated from the sale of their clients' business assets, according to the National Law Journal (subscription required).
According to the complaint, Waage advertised himself as a “visionary tax attorney.” He started his own law firm, now titled Strategic Law Group, which allegedly promoted illegal tax schemes that Waage used (for his own assets as well as those of his clients) to defraud the government of millions of dollars.
