Tax Law Blog

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.

What’s in a word? Tax terms can be confusing, but terms related to tax crimes must be clear when allegations are on the line.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is encouraging taxpayers to obtain an Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) as a necessary step to avoid tax fraud around tax returns.

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 ...

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.

Most companies offer basic benefits to their employees. Whether it's health insurance or wellness and retirement programs, business owners have a choice of what they want to provide and how much they want to pay for the perk.

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.

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).

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.

Erin Collins, the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA), recently took the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to task for an unprocessed backlog of 500,000 tax fraud cases.