Tax Law Blog

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.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is synonymous with tax collection and tax enforcement. The enforcement unit within the IRS that investigates and pursues tax crime is called Criminal Investigation (IRS:CI).

Involvement in tax fraud can lead to serious financial penalties and prison. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses specific terms to discuss and investigate fraud which are worth understanding from a compliance and litigation perspective.

Saving the best for last, the top two IRS:CI tax fraud matters of 2023 take a broad swipe at a multitude of IRS regulations from failure to file an FBAR report to money laundering, and tax fraud based on biofuel tax credits.