Tax Law Blog

Sometimes, tax fraud takes the form of schemes and scams that take advantage of taxpayer funded programs like Medicaid.

Like most global investment banks, Goldman Sachs would prefer not to have a guilty plea on its books—but the recent 1MDB scandal required one.

While it seems like 2020 has been one long disaster, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stepped up to offer some filing relief for those who are required to file a 2019 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) who have been hit...

The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network recently saw more than 2,000 of its Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) leaked to the media outlet Buzzfeed and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Tax fraud, money...

Maintaining some of your wealth through the use of an offshore tax haven can be a good strategy for growing and shielding your money. Americans living abroad routinely use foreign financial institutions for their banking and savings needs. Part of ...

A pyramid is a stable, solid form. As a payroll tax scam though, it is pretty shaky.

How troublesome is it if you fail to file your annual tax return, or your quarterly business taxes? This is not a trick question. The answer is, “it depends.”

After a long-running EU tax litigation, a recent decision strikes down an earlier ruling requiring that Apple pay almost $15 billion in taxes because of its preferential tax relationship with Ireland.

Tax crime is timeless. As long as there are taxes, there will be methods and modes—some legal, some illegal, and some by accident—that are used to work around tax regulations. Sometimes, current events provide us the opportunity to sketch how...

When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is interested in your business, the result could be a civil tax audit.