Tax Law Blog

In the second largest penalty obtained by the Department of Justice, Israel’s sprawling Bank Hapoalim admitted to a systemic program whereby its officials and branches laundered money and actively helped US taxpayers set up offshore tax accounts to...

Taylor Lohmeyer is going to have to give up the goods. Or, at least that is the latest from a federal appeals court in a matter involving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

While talking big and selling fake facts may not raise eyebrows today, Michael Cooper, founder of The Tax People, made big news for a short time selling tax fraud in the late 1990’s. Convicted of criminal tax fraud, Mr. Cooper went to federal prison...

Relieving some stress on a country devastated by viral illness, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pushed back the traditional filing dates for income tax returns this year.

With years of litigation ahead, two architects of an aggressive tax fraud that enveloped Europe will learn the consequences of their free-wheeling and profitable scheme as their trials get underway.

Allegations of tax fraud, non-disclosure of assets in foreign bank accounts, and tax crime form the basis of agreements between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and three Swiss banks.

The latest report from the IRS shows about the same number of us are paying the taxes we owe, and about the same number are not.

Filing false tax returns and failure to file reports on wealth held in foreign bank accounts netted a California businessman almost two years in prison.

Against an ongoing debate over digital tax, tech giant Google paid France just over $1 billion to settle long-simmering claims of tax fraud.

For a specific group of expatriates, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced new procedures for clearing out old tax debt.