Tax Law Blog

A budget-boosted compliance effort by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is paying off. The agency announced in July that it has collected more than $1 billion in overdue taxes from high-wealth taxpayers.

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).

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigation into tax crime around the pandemic-era Employee Retention Credit program is in high gear and looking into fraudulent claims. Processing of legitimate ERC remains ongoing at a slow pace.

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) compiles a list of prominent tax schemes that scammers use to exploit individuals and businesses. These schemes can arrive through email, text messages, and even traditional mail. This year, the IRS has...

If you have a foreign bank account, hold assets or have an interest in an offshore tax account, you are required to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). If you failed to file in the last year, the Internal Revenue Service...

The Department of Treasury is taking aim at the basis-shifting practices of partnerships.

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.

The Dirty Dozen list from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is an annual service that offers a heads-up to taxpayers of hot tax crime scams. The list also alerts those involved in these frauds that the IRS is paying attention and may catch up to...

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.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is using its historic underfunding to explain why it has failed to pursue high-asset Americans taking unlawful advantage of tax breaks in Puerto Rico.