A software engineer , furious with the US Internal Revenue Service, crashed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees today, officials said.

THE gyrations at Anglo Irish Bank continue to reverberate with fresh revelations coming out regularly. Yesterday, Dermot Ahern was on RTÉ arguing about the damage that disclosure of the names of the Anglo 10 would do to Irish banks.

PRESSURE mounted yesterday on New York governor Eliot Spitzer to resign because of a prostitution scandal, with a senior state Republican threatening to push for impeachment proceedings if the governor doesn’t step down in 48 hours.

A KERRY house worth more than €500,000 owned by a deceased US insurance fraudster is to be auctioned next month on behalf of the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau.

Movie actor Wesley Snipes has been charged with failing to file income tax returns and conspiring to defraud the US Internal Revenue Service, the agency said today.

Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline today said it is to pay a net $3.1bn (€2.4bn) to settle a tax dispute with the US government.

THE US revenue authorities are looking to recoup nearly €800 million from software company Symantec, claiming it used its Irish subsidiaries to reduce its tax bill.

The appeal by convicted Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt against his conviction has opened at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin.

American chess champion Bobby Fischer could be deported to the United States to face tax evasion charges there, it was reported today.

One of the top five pharmaceutical firms in the world, GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) said that it has received a claim from the US government of $2.7bn (€2.13bn) for taxes from the for the years 1989-1996.

Records show Charlie Chaplin's knighthood was blocked for nearly 20 years because of his lifestyle and several "grave moral charges".