Tax Law Blog

A recent Jacksonville, Florida tax crime offers a mashup of payroll tax fraud, shell company schemes, workers’ compensation fraud, and cooked books for good measure.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is offering a combination of services and guidance to help taxpayers avoid costly scams and schemes this tax filing season.

You want to avoid paying more tax than you need to—but—you do not want to commit tax fraud. It's important to understand where the line is drawn between these two approaches. What is the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance?

An extensive dive into the sheltering structures of a Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offers a primer on how to save on estate taxes in the U.S.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) encourages taxpayers to report tax fraud and abusive tax schemes.

A complicated tax crime earned a hedge fund trader about $1.3 billion in ill-gotten goods. It also earned him the next 12 years in prison.

Following a full week of trial, a Dutch tax advisor pled guilty to one count of aiding the filing of a false income tax return for celebrity clients who were U.S. taxpayers, but earned income around the world.

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 owner of a Deerfield accounting firm drew a prison term for preparing false tax returns—after he had already been tapped by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the same thing in 2018.

As tax season rolls around, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is again warning about the problem of tax preparer fraud.