Tax Law Blog

COVID-era financial relief programs successfully helped small businesses survive the unprecedented strain of the COVID pandemic and also provided an opportunity for a lot of bad actors to help themselves to government relief funds.

When you have serious reason to believe the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) suspects criminal activity involving your business, offshore tax holdings, payroll taxes, or personal tax returns, it is crucial to seek the right legal guidance from the...

Money laundering, tax crime, and drugs were the backbone of a transnational criminal enterprise commanded by a defendant now looking at her next 20 years in prison.

If you are preparing for an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) income tax audit or are already involved in the examination, it is important to understand how a routine tax audit can evolve into a criminal tax matter and what circumstances under which...

Have you ever wondered what you might get away with on your tax return? Let’s take a look at what tax fraud means.

An extensive fraud involving COVID-era relief programs ended with an unsealed indictment alleging four co-conspirators carried out the “nation’s largest COVID tax credit fraud,” along with an attempted murder of the ringleader to avoid exposure.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced that a law aimed at increasing corporate transparency and reducing money laundering will not be enforced.

A recent Jacksonville, Florida tax crime offers a mashup of payroll tax fraud, shell company schemes, workers’ compensation fraud, and cooked books for good measure.

You want to avoid paying more tax than you need to—but—you do not want to commit tax fraud. It's important to understand where the line is drawn between these two approaches. What is the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance?

A complicated tax crime earned a hedge fund trader about $1.3 billion in ill-gotten goods. It also earned him the next 12 years in prison.