Tax crimes

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit has been initiating fewer investigations of abusive tax return preparers this past year, while also recommending fewer prosecutions, and seeing fewer indictments and prison sentences this year.

What a POS; bad bet; too sick to go to prison; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

What a steel; there go the judge; children’s books; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Spreading the theft around; re-routed refunds; AIG loses, mostly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Gone Pro’s; various ways to fraud; oxymoron; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Robert T. Brockman, a Houston software tycoon, was charged with using a web of Caribbean entities to hide $2 billion in income in what prosecutors called the largest U.S. tax case ever against an individual.

Three defaults and you’re out; scheme of several years; misstep by misstep; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Smith will acknowledge wrongdoing to end a four-year U.S. tax investigation involving assets held in offshore tax havens.

Lost Horizon; crimes of Misdemeanor; Strachans plea; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

German lawmakers have called it the greatest tax heist in history.

Elusive cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Spain for tax evasion in the U.S.

Robert T. Brockman was just putting the finishing touches on a new private equity fund when worrisome news arrived. Law enforcement agents had raided the home of a tax lawyer in Texas who had worked for him.

GotTime.com; $1,600 a return; whole lotta hooch; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Deductions for haircuts, consulting fee write-offs, a family estate that is treated as a business property and an aggressive refund claim could open President Donald Trump to legal risks once he’s out of office.

A Panama sentencing; ‘subcontractor’ mess; fun with funds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Difficult and complex; $4,000 tax on $2 million; little horse sense; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Contemptuous; fashion misstatements; handwritten document; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Leniency in cancer case; rehab rip-off; repayment unlikely; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Philly fraud; under development; ran but couldn’t hide; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The matter hinges largely on whether Smith was actually the beneficial owner of Caribbean entities that received proceeds from his company’s first private equity fund, according to people familiar with the case.