Tax Law Blog

Voluntary tax compliance is a basic concept that underpins taxation in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) works to educate and encourage voluntary tax compliance, and most taxpayers do voluntarily comply.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a big job. As of 2019, the IRS's mission statement was, "To provide America's taxpayers top-quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and to enforce the law with integrity...

Thirty-two-year-old Joel Caswell owned three businesses and employed 40 workers. He also engaged in identity theft, bank fraud, payroll tax fraud, and wire fraud until an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal investigation pulled the plug.

As long as there are taxes, there will be tax evasion. Countries that compete for business through favorable tax structures can create friction with neighbors concerned about lost tax revenue. Malta has attracted international companies with a...

Rust never sleeps, and apparently neither does the long reach of German law in a case involving approximately $15 million in tax losses tied to Panamanian shell companies and offshore tax havens.

A prominent attorney with a taste for high-stakes gambling and luxury living was sentenced to prison in July.

Debated for years, a plan for an EU digital services tax (DST) is now a source of contention between the EU and the U.S.

Colombian singer and artist Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, “Shakira,” recently received significant tax relief from Spain’s National Court.

In February, Vice President Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS,) discussed plans for a new assistant attorney general position to address fraud, waste, and abuse involving taxpayer-funded...

It is not unusual for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prosecute taxpayers who engage in tax evasion, pandemic-era relief fraud or employment tax crimes. More unusual is a case in which the same business operators are accused of all three