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Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

When was the last time you saw an auditorium, full of experts, get truly excited about tax theory?

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences explains how the U.S. is falling behind other nations, including Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union, in combating illicit tobacco sales and tobacco tax abuse.

Approximately 800,000 taxpayers who received health care coverage through the federal insurance marketplace Healthcare.gov were sent the wrong information on their Form 1095-A and are being urged to wait to file their taxes until the first week of March when they receive the correct information from the federal government.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday morning announced it will implement a special enrollment period for individuals who learn, at the time they file their taxes, of the Affordable Care Act-mandated tax penalty for not having health insurance coverage.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Three Swiss bankers accused in 2012 of helping Americans hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service face new charges of obstructing the agency from collecting taxes on undeclared accounts.

It takes a heap o’ living just to make a house a home, as the old poem teaches. In Joel Evans’ case, he did enough living in two houses in Louisiana to make the U.S. his tax home.

The Internal Revenue Service recently created a group whose goal is to centralize several prior ad hoc efforts to authenticate taxpayers across its systems in an effort to combat identity theft-related tax fraud, but the IRS lacks a good estimate of the costs, benefits and risks, according to a new government report.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state is expanding its network of free tax assistance sites, opening 80 new sites across the Empire State and offering 942 free sessions to New Yorkers, while also dedicating more money toward combating tax fraud.