Tax Law Blog

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...

Outsourcing payroll functions can save business owners and operators time and money. Using vendor expertise lets employers focus on marketing their core strengths and customer fulfillment. For some companies, it is a good deal—and sometimes it isn’t.

Many people get caught up in allegations of tax fraud. Recently the king of Philadelphia Cheesesteak and his son were indicted for filing false tax returns and other criminal tax charges.

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.”

In what is sure to be a long and winding road, the former king of Spain, Juan Carlos, has gone into exile for what appears to be concern over eventual prosecution for tax crimes.

The circumstances around the arrest of a San Jose man tells a story of several common tax crimes rolled into one complicated narrative.

After politicians and profiteers sacked a Malaysian investment fund, Goldman Sachs is now paying the shortfall—and trying to avoid criminal tax charges in the United States.

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...

Big Labor has spent decades fighting a reputation for dealing under the table. A recent guilty plea by the former president of the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) is going to keep that assessment intact as a federal investigation continues to pull...