Tax Law Blog

Making focused use of diminishing resources, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced five additional compliance targets.

Concealing assets and value in foreign bank accounts during divorce can lead to an IRS criminal tax investigation.

For high wealth individuals and couples, the use of offshore tax havens is common. When done legally, placing wealth in offshore...

CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Robert J. Fedor, Esq., L.L.C. is very proud to announce three attorneys in the practice have been selected, once again, for recognition by the Super Lawyers organization. Our managing partner, Robert J. Fedor, Esq., has...

Secret offshore tax havens get a lot of bad press.  What are some good reasons to consider a foreign bank account?

If you are contacted or approached by a special agent of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it is important to know what is happening and what to do. The short answer is defer contact with the agents and contact an experienced criminal tax attorney...

Employment tax fraud was a poor prescription for a Virginia business owner.

Virginia resident, Jerry Harper, Jr., is a pharmacist who owns five pharmacies in the Western District of Virginia. By combining accounting practices for his five...

The Criminal Investigation (CI) Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is tasked with investigating criminal tax matters, financial malfeasance, and enforcing compliance. The recent release of the CI Annual Report for 2018 offers a snapshot...

The IRS Criminal Investigation division found nearly $10 billion in tax fraud in fiscal year 2018—four times more than last year thanks to its focus on using data analytics.

A high-asset individual with significant or questionable tax liability is likely, sooner or later, to be the target of an IRS audit, or worse a criminal tax investigation.

From entertainment to sports, offshore holdings to the corporate board room, forms of tax fraud remain remarkably consistent—only the industry changes. In a recent case prosecuted by the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, a dealer in...