{"id":13362,"date":"2015-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/miccosukee-chair-must-turn-over-records-in-tribes-tax-battle-with-irs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:02:58","slug":"miccosukee-chair-must-turn-over-records-in-tribes-tax-battle-with-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/miccosukee-chair-must-turn-over-records-in-tribes-tax-battle-with-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Miccosukee chair must turn over records in tribe\u2019s tax battle with IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here&#039;s what I want you to understand.<\/p>\n<p>www.miamiherald.com \u2014 The Miccosukee Tribe has been dealt another devastating blow in its marathon <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/ford-suffers-yet-another-setback-in-its-legal-battle-against-irs\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"2233\">legal battle<\/a> with the U.S. government over failure to report and withhold taxes on hundreds of millions of dollars in casino income distributed to tribal members.<\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Miccosukee Chairman Colley Billie must answer <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tribe-told-give-details-finances-irs\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1618\">Internal Revenue Service demands for records<\/a> showing more than $300 million in gaming distributions to 600 members of the West Miami-Dade tribe over a five-year period. That averages out to roughly $100,000 for each member annually.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/article22945374.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miccosukee chair must turn over records in tribe\u2019s tax battle with IRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here&#039;s what I want you to understand. www.miamiherald.com \u2014 The Miccosukee Tribe has been dealt another devastating blow in its marathon legal battle with the U.S. government over failure to report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28644,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}