Tax Law Blog

An Ohio businessman facing 20 years in prison pled guilty to tax crime, including filing fraudulent tax returns.

A small crew files false income tax returns and directs refund checks to accounts held in the names of the co-conspirators. Not a terribly catchy caper, and fairly common. A Washington D.C. man took it a little further by involving the identity of a...

Kenneth Johnson, 75 years old, has represented the Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood on the Cleveland City Council for decades. In July 2021, his career of service ended with his conviction of submitting fraudulent tax returns, among other tax violations.

Tax fraud involving identity theft is big business. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to help you understand your risks, and be proactive in preventing others from gaining access to your tax ID and data.

Taking advantage of company perks and fringe benefits is no new thing. For a New York CFO, the practice has plunged him and the company he works for into a media circus that could send him to prison.

Complicated and larger than life, extradition on charges of tax crime may have been the final straw that ended the life of cyber service entrepreneur John McAfee.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to pursue tax preparers engaged in filing fraudulent tax returns. Let’s look at some of these cases in our own backyard in Ohio.

It takes a lot of tax fraud to make the top five list of IRS criminal tax investigations. The IRS Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) mulled through its many prosecutions and came up with five noteworthy criminal tax matters of the 2020...

Tax fraud involving fraudulent tax returns takes down another tax preparer—this time an examiner for the IRS.

As most people know, failure to file an income tax return can cause trouble—or you might not get a refund that is owed to you.