Tax Law Blog

If it sounds too good to be true—it probably is. That is the message the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to communicate to U.S. consumers about unscrupulous pop-ups marketing Offers in Compromise (OIC) as an easy route to shedding tax debt.

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 application period for the Compliance Assurance Process (CAP) program is now open—how can it assist your company?

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.

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...

Nonresidents of New York State may be asked to pay taxes if New York state decides they are spending enough time in the state to qualify.

If you work remotely in New Jersey for a New York employer, you can avoid the hassles of commuting and possibly congestion pricing if it is ever enacted. But you are probably still paying personal income tax to New York.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) routinely pursues scams and scamsters engaged in tax fraud.  The IRS also scrutinizes tax returns, annual financial reports, and other submissions for tax fraud.  So—what is tax fraud?