Tax Law Blog

Payment in cash is easy and fast. Workers appreciate cash and it saves business owners money and hassle—in the short term. Paying cash under the table can also lead to prosecution for tax fraud.

In what is sure to be a long and winding road, the former king of Spain, Juan Carlos, has gone into exile for what appears to be concern over eventual prosecution for tax crimes.

Most of us would not intentionally commit tax fraud. Being convicted of filing fraudulent tax returns can put a crimp in your professional life, not to mention the possibility of going to prison. Yet, some people commit tax crime without even...

The circumstances around the arrest of a San Jose man tells a story of several common tax crimes rolled into one complicated narrative.

The pressure on Big Tech to pay big taxes is global. Even as multinational companies battle allegations of tax fraud in Europe, countries in Southeast Asia are moving to claim their share of the digital pie.

After politicians and profiteers sacked a Malaysian investment fund, Goldman Sachs is now paying the shortfall—and trying to avoid criminal tax charges in the United States.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently unveiled its traditional Dirty Dozen Scam list.Let’s take a look.

Tax crime is timeless. As long as there are taxes, there will be methods and modes—some legal, some illegal, and some by accident—that are used to work around tax regulations. Sometimes, current events provide us the opportunity to sketch how...

Failure to file tax returns in some cases means the government eventually gets to keep the change. What happens when taxpayers who are due a tax refund do not ask for it?

A tip concerning tax fraud or a tax crime to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can pay dividends to whistleblowers. How does that work?