Tax Law Blog

Taking a more collaborative approach to fighting financial crime, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced a new initiative for working with banking institutions to fight tax crime.

With seven thousand workers fired, and a bigger round of firing ahead, it is not clear what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be prioritizing in the future.

Each year IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS: CI) releases its top ten list of tax crimes of the past year. The selections highlight the height of criminal tax fraud and the lengths that defendants go to mint money—if only for a little while. The...

Tax fraud does not pay—especially fraud involving employment taxes.

A recent Jacksonville, Florida tax crime offers a mashup of payroll tax fraud, shell company schemes, workers’ compensation fraud, and cooked books for good measure.

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.