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This past holiday season, the topic of TIME kept coming up over and over again.

**WARNING TO BATON ROUGE RESIDENTS**

There is a confirmed IRS phone scam circulating in the Baton Rouge service area. Scammers place phone calls claiming that the victims owe the IRS money and must pay immediately or suffer serious consequences -- including arrest and imprisonment!

We are thrilled to be named the Face of Tax Resolution Law in the May-June 2014 Baton Rouge issue of Louisiana Life magazine! It's always rewarding to show the great folks of Louisiana what we do, and how we are different from the other tax resolution firms. It's just a fact – LOCAL is the way to go!

In case you missed it, here's a reproduction of the piece from the magazine...

On Monday, May 12th, the Louisiana House of Representatives approved House Bill 663 – the 2014 tax amnesty law. Under the law, taxpayers who owe back taxes can save 67% of the penalties and 33% of the interest they owe on the overdue taxes.

The Louisiana legislature is working hard on House Bill 663 to approve another round of tax amnesty to begin in the Fall of 2014. The apparent motive appears to center on helping the state balance the budget for the upcoming fiscal year which begins on July 1st. Lawmakers hope to raise approximately $10 million by enticing delinquent taxpayers to come forward and pay.

In case you haven’t heard, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently issued a report finding that IRS employees who owed back taxes were paid lucrative bonuses.  According to TIGTA, more than $1 million was paid to over 1,100 IRS employees who are delinquent on their taxes.

The Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation, Bryson Law Firm and Bryson Accounting and Tax Service are holding a FREE tax clinic on Friday, April 4th at the Lafayette Bar Association office

If you have unfiled tax returns do not hang your head in shame! You are not alone.

Cary and Angie Bryson of Bryson Law Firm, L.L.C. were asked by New Orleans attorney, Doug Sunseri, to be guest co-hosts of his WWL radio show "All Things Legal" last Sunday morning. The show plays each Sunday morning from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.

WASHINGTON — President Obama this week will seek to force American businesses to pay more overtime to millions of workers, the latest move by his administration to confront corporations that have had soaring profits even as wages have stagnated.

On Thursday, the president will direct the Labor Department to revamp its regulations to require overtime pay for several million additional fast-food managers, loan officers, computer technicians and others whom many businesses currently classify as "executive or professional" employees to avoid paying them overtime, according to White House officials briefed on the announcement.