Tax Law Blog

Our countdown of the top ten tax crimes of 2024 has come to an end. The final two entries outline a calculated fall from grace by a crypto bro, and a civilian army employee who helped herself to funds intended for military families.

Despite relentless volatility, bitcoin and other cyber-currencies are having a moment as the new administration rolls back regulatory efforts and pushes for a national digital asset stockpile.

On the 2024 Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Top Ten federal tax crime list, numbers four and three represent legacy tax frauds—long-running scams that earned operators a lot of money—and lengthy prison sentences.

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.