Tax Law Blog

Tax season is well underway. You have received the required earnings and account statements and may be wondering whether it is a problem that you did not file taxes for past last two years. The question crosses your mind, can I go to jail for this?

Wells Fargo, fighting an uphill battle to rehabilitate its reputation, got an assist from the Federal Reserve in early June.

Considering a foreign bank account? It pays to know where your money might be going.

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.

The former senior vice president and general counsel of Moody’s (a financial services company that provides credit ratings, research, and risk analysis) was sentenced to prison for failure to file his tax returns.

Around and around it goes. A Florida financial advisor rolled the dice on fraudulent tax shelters, filing false income tax returns, and money laundering—and he appears to be heading for a reckoning.

A successful businessman crosses the line into employment tax fraud and is going to prison. A short but sadly common story for some individuals responsible for paying over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is synonymous with tax collection and tax enforcement. The enforcement unit within the IRS that investigates and pursues tax crime is called Criminal Investigation (IRS:CI).

Erin Collins, the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA), recently took the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to task for an unprocessed backlog of 500,000 tax fraud cases.

Saving the best for last, the top two IRS:CI tax fraud matters of 2023 take a broad swipe at a multitude of IRS regulations from failure to file an FBAR report to money laundering, and tax fraud based on biofuel tax credits.