Tax Law Blog

Winding out what will surely be the most effective years of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the agency recently updated on key milestones in its operating plan.

The owner of a Deerfield accounting firm drew a prison term for preparing false tax returns—after he had already been tapped by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the same thing in 2018.

Report and payment of employment taxes are a fundamental responsibility of business owners who employ workers in the United States. An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal tax investigation recently exposed another business that collected ...

A “card room” is a seemingly quaint term for a place where people mix, mingle, and play cards. One California card room got a fast lesson in financial reporting that resulted in a Consent Order and a $900,000 fine.

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.

Collection and payment of employment taxes to the U.S. Treasury funds programs like Social Security, Medicare, and federal unemployment. Failure to withhold and turn over payroll taxes can lead to a penalty against those responsible, which can be...

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).

Years after the stunning revelations fueled by the Panama Papers, Nordea Bank was charged by Danish authorities with involvement in $3.7 billion in questionable transactions. Stateside, Nordea recently settled allegations by New York authorities...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released the latest collection of everything-IRS for the fiscal year ending September 20, 2023. Not surprisingly, it is called the IRS Data Book.